Thursday, May 31, 2012

USA: We Can't Even Keep Our Plants Straight

Yet one more way in which the U.S. has gone astray:
"The tomato, though a fruit to botanists, has been decreed a vegetable by the United States Supreme Court."
      -- Nicholas Wade, New York Times
Is there anything lawyers haven't ruined?

1 comment:

crf said...

You may like to read this:
When Law Meets Scientific Illiteracy

In British Columbia, our plants could soon be legal animals!