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Sensitive Swiss Ban Plant Humiliation

Genetic research must not violate the dignity of wheat

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 10, 2008 5:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – Swiss scientists eager to carry out genetic experiments on plants can’t be rash—they must first consider the how their actions make that tulip feel. Government-backed ethicists studied the effects of such experimentation on plants’ dignity; they found that it was wrong to hurt...   Read full story »

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