Give Peas a Chance - Mark Steyn


	Give Peas a Chance - Mark Steyn

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b8b32d1-a304-4996-81d1-05071ce28446/DCCDD1BE-93B8-4811-9BA7-E1126434E6F7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzAxZDBmZjc2ZDY1MmI2N2U5ZjQzMTExMjY5NGM0Nzk=" href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzAxZDBmZjc2ZDY1MmI2N2U5ZjQzMTExMjY5NGM0Nzk=" style="font-size: 11px;">corner.nationalreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzAxZDBmZjc2ZDY1MmI2N2U5ZjQzMTExMjY5NGM0Nzk="><DIV class="blog_text"><P class="blog_date">Monday, May 05, 2008</P><IMG src="http://beta.nationalreview.com/images/blog_dotted_divider.gif" /><BR /><P class="blog_title_holder"><SPAN class="blog_title">Re: Vegetable rights and peace</SPAN>   [<A href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/mailto:%6d%61il%62%6f%78%40%73%74%65%79%6eon%6c%69%6ee%2ec%6fm">Mark Steyn</A>]<BR /></P><P class="blog_text">Jonah, all we are saying is give peas a chance.</P><P>Actually, I think the Belmont Club has the best <A target="_blank" href="http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/05/terra-nullius.html">observation</A> on Switzerland's move to "vegetable rights":</P><BLOCKQUOTE><P>But who is really being "empowered" by the Swiss committee's decision? Is it plants? No. It is bureaucrats. The point of vegetable rights isn't to give plants dignity but to transfer yet more individual human freedoms to activists and government officials.</P></BLOCKQUOTE><P>They'll make vegetables of us all yet.</P><P>I'm reminded of a Brit joke from the Eighties: Mrs Thatcher and her all-male cabinet walk into a restaurant. The Prime Minister orders a steak, and the oleaginous waiter asks, "And for the vegetables?"</P><P>"Oh, they'll have what I'm having."</P><P></P><P class="blog_permalink"><A class="blog_permalink" href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzAxZDBmZjc2ZDY1MmI2N2U5ZjQzMTExMjY5NGM0Nzk=">05/05 08:04 PM</A></P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DCCDD1BE-93B8-4811-9BA7-E1126434E6F7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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