Granting Rights to Plants in Switzerland

What It Means to Be Human by Wesley Smith

Feb 4, 20097:09Science & Medicine

An ethics panel in Switzerland is considering granting rights to … plants. On this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Wesley Smith, Discovery Institute senior fellow in human rights and bioethics, looks at how Switzer...

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