Mouse Grimace Scale

Now they will be able to scientifically measure nonspeaking animals' pain.

So that lab animals "don't suffer unnecessarily."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/188227.php

Who gets to say what the necessary suffering will be?

Can no one remember Stanley Milgram?

vegan vice, ooo so nice

Excellent: Interviewer to man watching naked girls, dollarbill tucked behind ear, eating first ever vegan meal: "Would you consider becoming a vegan?" "Uh ... yes!"

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/videos/g-word-online-clips-vegan-strip-club.html

It's the PETA influence: don't ghettoize veganism into a little pocket of stuffy virtue---gloss it with lots of sexy glamour so people don't feel deprived---hence the naked people clustered together in animal costumes in the streets, and the glam celebs espousing their weight loss and good skin, kissing doves or baby koalas.

That's what's in all the vegan dessert cookbook craze: Okay I'm giving up all animal food, but I can eat lotsa rich yummy desserts. There's just no appeal in plain goodness.

a philosophy of vegetarianism

Reading Daniel Dombrowski's book _The Philosophy of Vegetarianism_, 1984. A detailed and extensive account of the ancient philosophers' reckoning on the vegetarian issue---and it was an issue from the beginning.

Why does rejecting meat and animal foodstuffs *require* a philosophy? It would seem that it has been so since the very beginnings of recorded human thought.

The ancients connected vegetarian eating with a golden (I wrote godlen) era of human being---a time when humans had a peace and connection with other beings in the world unmatched in historical time.

Is idealism a necessary condition of vegetarian diet? Are vegetarians *marked* by an idealism?


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