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What do you think about "cruelty to plants" as a platform for a not for profit group?
Naturally the group would be against cruelty to plants. There are ethical issues raised when a business grows plants for profit and allows these plants to die due to lack of care. Wal-Mart is a great example of a business which regularly is cruel to plants.
For those of you who scoffed, you didn't think it though. Cruelty to plants is when you raise them, the allow them to die from neglect. Since your lives depend on the oxygen you breath, you should be more concerned about this. Think of how much energy, fuel and resources are used to raise a plant just to let it die!
Anti-cruelty to plants is a global issue and has merit.
Thanks to those of us who care, Wal-Mart is now on the "Don't patronize" list for plants in my book. I had a part in our local store stopping the sale of fish since they treated them even worse than the plants!
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, I LIKE your idea!
As an employee at a REAL greenhouse (where we actually love and care for our plants!) I hate to see places like Walmart abusing the poor things. Their employees aren't even qualified to WATER them (God forbid they get a fungal disease or insect damage!) and anyone who buys them there aren't getting good plants for their money.
But---like they did with everything else---Walmart had to horn in on the business of selling plants, too.
I'd like to get on my soapbox now, and tell anyone paying attention that I personally boycott Walmart, and hope you will too :)
MRS---you are completely correct about the amount of energy it takes to grow plants. As we grow a great many of ours from seed, I'm aware that the costs of operating greenhouses (for the uninitiated out there, the darn things have to be HEATED) are prohibitive.
And Mrs---congratulations on playing a part in your Walmart no longer being able to sell living creatures! (The fish.) The world needs MORE people like you :)
- BobKatLv 51 decade ago
Hoooboy, this has nutcase written all over it. You eat vegetables, don't you? They're plants, ya know. Are you going to complain about the way farmers grow and harvest your vegetables too?
Do you have a lawn? Better not step on the grass or it might claim you're being cruel to it.
Hey, let's all stop planting lawns and we can all frolic on dirt.
The case with the WalMart plants is more a matter of carelessness and ignorance rather than cruelty.
- KLv 51 decade ago
But isn't eating considered cruelty as well? Or what about lawn mowing? There's far too many things one can be cruel to plants with.
Damn those gardeners and their pruning shears...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
i havent heard any of the plants complaining...if this is the only subject you can take issue with , your world must be different from mine...
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- EastCoastRiderLv 71 decade ago
if that is your view about plants then there is no reason why you can't do it, it is no different then being an environmentalist.
- trl.Lv 51 decade ago
are you serious? they are just plants and there will always be more....so dont even bother
Source(s): ive killed many a plant and went out and bought another to re-plant in its place
