In an attempt to be on the cutting edge of the absurd, the Swiss government has added an amendment to their plant rights law . It is now illegal to humiliate a plant . "Where does it stop?" asks Yves Poirier, a molecular biologist at the laboratory of plant biotechnology at the University of Lausanne. "Should we now defend the dignity of microbes and viruses?" If the Swiss have their way, nobody will be eating twice-shamed potatoes at my house anymore.