Swiss plant dignity and the end of time

According to Nature and others, Swiss law requires plant researchers to describe in grant applications how they will respect plant dignity in their experiments. It's tough to tell if the requirement is the unintended result of vaguely worded legislation or if it's intentionally anti-GMO. In any case, the Swiss plant dignity law is certainly ironic in the context of the Large Hadron Collider lawsuit. The LHC, on the border of France and Switzerland, will be the world's most powerful particle collider when it is completed in a few weeks. Some physicists fear it might destroy the universe. Amazingly, the operators of the LHC admit that it could create persistent black holes--no worries.