As a member of PETA I must come to the defense of our organization from the slanderous and scurrilous posts polluting this thread.
We at PETA feel we are, indeed, at the top of the food chain- provided we have electricity, guns, an army and a police force to protect us. Sheeeit, tell me you're at the top of the food chain if you're swimming with a shark- or facing a hungry mountain lion- or even facing an angry goose. Put down your weapons, human, and you'll find out just how far down on the food chain you DESERVE to be but are propped up artificially by the inventions of people much more clever than you.
It's not a part of the natural order to have unnatural implements such as guns and knives. Take away the advantages of technology and humans are someplace between a rabbit and a hamster on the food chain. We are soft, white, plump hairless delacies for any other creature that decides they want to sample us...from rats to cats.
We are currently reviewing our policy towards plant abuse thanks in no small part to that gut wrenching post by Toad concerning the killer combine, and presently we are leaning towards including plants in a new blanket orginazation called PETAPAN, or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Plants And Nature.
We have determined only fungi should be consumed as research has shown this lower form of plant life to have a primitive nero-pain center in relation to more advanced plant life. Higher forms of plant life should remain natural and without cultivation as Nature has intended it, although in keeping with our pro-choice agenda the eating of nuts and seeds is allowable provided no new plant has begun to sprout from these seeds. These plant fetuses, or uncracked nuts, are entirely without viability and never have begun to exist provided they haven't yet formed a tap root.
PETAPAN will fight for the rights of plants and animals to compete on an equal footing with man on this "food chain" ladder- we will not rest until no guns are used in hunting, no lures are used in fishing and no hoes are used in gardening.