BETHPAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The federal government is looking at a former
defense plant site in Bethpage to possibly house thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America.
RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to
Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal
Defense Fund Web
Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.
While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a
defense mechanism in
plants involving apoptosis, where «the
plant cell is induced to die around the infection
site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says.