{"id":860,"date":"2019-01-01T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=860"},"modified":"2019-01-01T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:54:07","slug":"animal-abu-ghraib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/animal-abu-ghraib\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Abu Ghraib"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a letter to the NY Times from Judith Economos<\/a> about “U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit: Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sir: Where do they find enough psychopaths willing to do these things?<\/p>\n

It is certainly not scientific. They show no understanding of either fitness by Natural Selection or the logic of gestation and the bearing of offspring. Mammals are capable — often just barely — of sustaining the number of babies which they customarily produce (after many many generations of adaptation). Unless you find a way to reduce a sheep or cow to a giant womb and its auxiliary support systems, these animals currently bear as many young in one parturition as their bodies can nourish and support. It is obvious that if you short-circuit this ancient arrangement to generate more embryos, the nourishment will necessarily be divided among them, resulting in not enough for any of them. Thus are lambs — sentient as are all animals — born starving and already dying. The mother’s resources are depleted; even the ones the she accepts are bound to be malnourished. <\/p>\n

STOP THIS SO-CALLED RESEARCH! It is bad enough that we eat meat unkindly raised and often brutally killed. That we now support fake science to make “meat production” (we don’t want to call it animals and their babies, do we? Not that many people care) more profitable for the meat factories is insupportable. <\/p>\n

It is horrifying. <\/p>\n

It is psychopathic.<\/p>\n

Judith Economos
\n44 Beech Hill Road
\nScarsdale NY 10583
\n914 725 5430<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is a letter to the NY Times from Judith Economos about “U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit: Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry Sir: Where do they find enough psychopaths willing to do these things? It is certainly not scientific. They show no understanding of either fitness … <\/p>\n

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