Australian Tomato Liberation Movement (ATLF) Poisons Seedlings to Liberate Them From Fate as Food

Declaring that it would be better for tomato plants to be dead than enslaved to tomato growers, the ATLF has poisoned seedlings to liberate them from a lifetime of slavery before having the fruit of their labors cruelly picked and consumed.  From the story:

Tomato prices could double or triple in coming months after millions of seedlings were poisoned in an act of mass sabotage in north Queensland. About 7 million plants, including about 4 million tomato seedlings, have been lost after they were poisoned at a Bowen nursery last month. Other affected crops include capsicum, melons and eggplant.

I made up the ATLF, of course.  But the crime is real—and from what I read in the papers, not the first time food crops have been poisoned in Queensland.  Nor am I making light of this dasterdly crime. 

But there is a point here: This is the  precisely the direction in which we are heading.  Recall, for example, a New York Times journalist calling plants the most ethical life form and the declaration of intrinsic plant dignity in Switzerland.  And remember, no matter how far out I go on these issues, they always catch up to me.