Aren't "Christmas Trees" a form of genocide...

[ProudDad]

Not healthy...IMHO

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I'm against the senseless chopping of sentient X-mas trees.

It's a form of abuse.

We should leave pines and firs to their natural predators, like weevils and chiggers.

[TZ]

13. ....

You are only saying that because you are a shill for Big Cedar....:P
(couldn't resist)

[Swamp Rat]

18. LOLOL!!!

:rofl:

[ourbluenation]

21. but what about the spiders and bats that chomp on the weevils and chiggers? Huh?

:rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. They're murderers.

I hope they die.

[TomInTib]

2. We buy live ones with intact root balls.

And then we replant them.

[ProudDad]

3. Outstanding! (n/t)

[TomInTib]

16. Not only that....

but they are Regional Firs (I cannot remember the specific name) that we can plant freely without any non-native invasion.

I love it. Feels as if I am giving something back to Nature.

[orleans]

31. there is a service for living trees

http://www.livingchristmastrees.org/
they replant the trees after xmas

"What percentage of the trees die after being planted? Less than 10% on average. That's a 90% survival rate and TOLCTC gives free replacement trees if any don't make it. Even trees from nurseries have a mortality rate. When we first started folks in the tree business doubted that our trees would live well enough. Portland is perfect for this. We went through some pioneering pains and a couple years in the mid ninties too many trees died but that's all in the past and fixed now."

[Orwellian_Ghost]

4. More a representation

of commodification of life and monoculture. That means hacking away at all sorts of things.

[BuyingThyme]

5. There's nothing better than cutting down a tree and propping it up in your living room.

No shortage of little conifers in my world. And the smell...

[Fierce]

6. No.

There's hyperbole, and then there's stupidity.

[Wcross]

7. Uh, in what way? Like lettuce farming is a form of genocide?

'Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, religious or national group. While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, the legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

Agriculture is genocide? ROTFLMAO.

[BuyingThyme]

11. They only kill the Christian trees.

[Teaser]

8. They are evidence of sexual dysfunction

If a tree represents a phallus, then what does it mean that we find a tree covered in spines, bring it into the house, and hang little balls all over it?

[Quantess]

29. LOL

[Lint Head]

9. It's not the sleigh bells Martha. The trees are screaming.

Don't step on the mistletoe. It has bunions :dem:

[Sanctified]

10. Christmas Trees come from Farms like the ones that grow your vegetables.

If having a Christmas tree is Genocide then so is eating corn.

[Zywiec]

15. How long does it take to replace a mature corn stalk versus an 8' tree? n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. About 1 year vs. 6 or 7 years.

[Sanctified]

22. How long does it take to replace a tree that would never have been planted in the first place?

These are lands where someone goes out of their way to plant trees and then harvest them after a couple of years and then replant the trees again. If they were not farming the trees they would not be growing them.

[Lint Head]

24. I can hear the corn screaming in my mouth.

:dem:

[XemaSab]

26. My Christmas tree came from the forest

:shrug:

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. So buy a living one and plant it. We have done that.

I have an artificial tree now but I miss the smell of a real tree. I just light pine scented candles and that satisfies me.

[TomInTib]

19. We buy and re-plant living trees. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. It's a really cool thing to do.

:hi:

[Nye Bevan]

14. OMG- I am the Pol Pot of Christmas Trees

but in my defense I do treat them very well while they are in my house.

There's a question that has never occurred to me. Is it better to live a relatively short life but to be loved, decorated, and have presents put underneath you, or to live a somewhat longer life, but to have bears and deer crap on you and to eventually die of natural causes?

[MissB]

28. snort

:rofl:

[scarletwoman]

17. Way to trivialize the term "genocide". Please tell me this is satire! You CAN'T be serious! (nt)

[ileus]

25. Algore tears up at Christmas time.

[MissB]

27. In Oregon, cutting down a Christmas tree is just that.

It is Oregon. Trees grow here. Christmas tree farms dot the countryside. Not healthy? :rofl:

[knitter4democracy]

32. We buy ours from a small-time tree farmer in town.

How is that genocide? Seriously--pick a better word next time.

There are many small family-run tree farms in Michigan. The families switched to Christmas trees because of better money in it.

[Cobalt Violet]

33. NO, n/t