Vegetable Rights: A Brief Justification

On 28th August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr, delivered the iconic, "I have a dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Lauded as the most defining moment in the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, called for an end to racism and demanded equal civil rights for all.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"

It is indeed disheartening to see that 55 years since this speech has brought little or no change in our society. Forget vegetables, humans are not ready to treat each other as equals. The debate on the unequal treatment of humans and stringent rules imposed by the society, we leave to such intellectually advanced and learned persons but since, every living organism has the right to live freely and not be subdued by those in power, we have decided to come forward and advocate for the rights of those who cannot truly defend themselves against such malpractices, who find it difficult to raise their voice (because, well... they don't have one)

Outside of nightmares, that is.

The vegetable.
Yes, vegetables deserve civil rights and it's time we understand why.

VIOLATION OF VEGETABLE RIGHTS: AN OPEN MARKET STORY

As explained in our previous article, Horrors of Horticulture, vegetables have been subjected to many cruel and invegetabale practices. Indeed, so impervious are we to vegetable rights and so disdainful are we of our own greatness that we openly violate the rights of a vegetable without fear of reproach in a place of public gathering: the market and thus, subjecting the vegetable to public humiliation and mockery. Vegetables are sold to their human counterparts with prices attached to each of them as the sellers openly pronounce the price of each vegetable hoping to get more customers to throng to their stalls. Didn't we fight for years, to stop the indurate practise of selling humans? Then how can we stand by and let hypocrisy consume us as we openly subject the vegetable to the same mistreatment? The market is just a fraction of a story. How often have we mercilessly peeled a banana without a dint of consideration for its modesty?

Not nearly enough

As if that wasn't enough, we humans, have taken to cutting the parts of a plant to ease our gardening operations and to create a new plant from it. And then, we have the nerve to label these ghastly operations as "fruitful". Imagine having your body parts cut off and joined with the body parts of another animal to create an organism of sorts that looks like something the ancient Egyptians would worship (feel scared yet?)

Egypt   home of the world's first botched nose-job

VEGETABLES DESERVE THEIR RIGHTS AND HERE IS OUR
JUSTIFICATION:

It pains me to see that centuries of oppression of the vegetable has made us oblivious to their suffering to the point where we have to justify why the vegetable should deserve its natural rights.
The only way to remove ignorance is through proper education and hence, the education of vegetable rights has become a necessity. In order to fully come to terms with the idea of a vegetable as not just an entity but a living organism deserving of respect and dignity, we have to go back to 70,000 years ago when there was revolution in sapiens' cognitive abilities causing them to think abstractly and create various "myths" which brought the sapiens closer and caused them to co operate together in a society, in a period hailed as the Cognitive Revolution .

Then the internet came and f****d it up

COGNITIVE REVOLUTION: THE VEGETABLE CONNECT

Perhaps, no one has been able to describe Cognitive Revolution and the subsequent creation of human myths as lucidly as Yuval Noah Harari does in his book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

"Any large scale human cooperation, whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination. Churches are rooted in common religious myths. Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was reincarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins. States are rooted in common national myths."

Nothing priests can't do with some teamwork

So, by this definition, everything from the law, our rights to the judiciary is based on a myth, a legal myth to be more precise. These myths resulted in the creation of limited liability companies, where companies, which are again, a part of the greater fiction of human minds, can open a bank account and own property. It pays taxes and can also sue and be sued by other people. In other words, these companies hold the same rights as a flesh and blood human.

So, my question is this, if we can give a figment of our imagination the same rights as we have ourselves, can we not give these rights to the vegetable which happens to be an actual living organism? Are we so conceited in our own beliefs that we can respect and have faith in a mythical man residing in a mythical place called Heaven and yet, laugh at the notion of equality for a vegetable that we can see, touch and feel, that happens to have a life? Think about it, vegetables deserve their rights and you know it.

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