Human rights, animal rights and now plant rights

Having worked in Switzerland they never struck me as being ultra greens:

Swiss experts say plants have rights too
Plants need protection from maltreatment and pollution, government experts said on Monday.
A report by the government-appointed Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) described interfering with plants without a valid reason as "morally inadmissible".

H/T Matt Briggs, Statistician