Animals suffering from congenital heart disease tend to be diagnosed at a younger age
than animals with other kinds of heart disease.
Animals with high cortisol levels lived less long
than animals with low cortisol levels.
On the flip side, said Tran, PGC1 alpha transgenic mice, which had increased expression of these genes, were particularly resistant to various stressors and recovered from injury much more than quickly
than animals with normal regenerative abilities.
Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value
than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):
It constantly amazes me how many homes I visit where the dog is being treated more like a houseplant
than an animal with physical, psychological, and social needs.
Not exact matches
(This goal is considerably less gruesome
than the one he set a few years ago, when he resolved to eat meat only from
animals he killed
with his own hands.)
That soldiers of all the armies kept fighting in the horrible trenches, often
with a vigor that post-moderns find incomprehensible and more
than a little distressing, says something about the human
animal that needs discussion.
Part of an emerging crew of startups operating in cellular agriculture — the pairing of food science
with genetic engineering — Modern Meadow plans to appeal to more
than just the
animal - activist crowd.
For more
than decade, she's experimented
with creating meat - free alternatives to the
animal protein - heavy foods she grew up eating in Guam.
Campaigning for the Senate in the Philippines, Pacquiao called people in gay relationships «worse
than animals» during an interview
with a local broadcaster.
«The question is going to be,
with the
animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters
than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.
If you are familiar
with Google's constant algorithm updates, however, these terms mean far more
than adorable black - and - white
animals.
His plan is to infuse the company's parks
with mom - and millennial - pleasing «purpose»; to make them more about
animal conservation
than animal entertainment; and to make them more educational (
with more naturalistic
animal displays and lessons about creatures in the wild), but also more fun (
with more rides).
Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for
animals than what I've done
with my life.»
As part of its pitch, the company explains to potential customers that the so - called «net present value» of a $ 7,000 saddle is actually less
than the all - in cost of using an ill - fitting one — expenses that include frequent vet bills, replacement saddles and even the costs associated
with the premature death of the
animal due to saddle - related health problems.
People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) is the largest
animal rights organization in the world
with more
than three million members and supporters.
Two whole hectares dedicated to demonstrative fields and stables
with more
than 200
animals and 2000 different cultivars.
National
animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds
with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other
than a form of rescue.
Last fall I spoke
with more
than 25
animal advocates about the work culture at their respective organizations.
Food scientists are examining
animal products at the molecular level and sourcing plants
with matching proteins and nutrients to create delicious plant - based meats, eggs, and dairy products that are healthier and more sustainable
than conventional
animal products.
GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient
than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met
with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.
GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more
than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition
with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.
Plant - based dairy products such as milk continue to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S.,
with sales in the former category growing as sales in the latter category decline.45 It seems likely that cultured meat products will have similar effects, sometimes replacing plant - based products, but also replacing products of
animal agriculture — particularly because they will likely be harder to distinguish by taste and texture
than current substitutes.
They work
with corporations to increase the availability of
animal product alternatives and have developed a «restaurant report card» to score the top 100 chain restaurants according to their plant - based options.22 In general, we think that corporate outreach is a relatively effective
animal advocacy intervention, though we are less certain of the effects of promoting plant - based options in restaurants
than we are of the effects of working
with corporations to implement welfare reforms.
I choose to live life to the fullest through joy of discovering His «art» like fractals, birth, consciousness, seasons,
animals, the «mighty deep» thanks to a Creator rather
than accidental and inconsequential life, while hanging in the perfect orbit between burning up and freezing, complete
with the earth's own washing machine, the ocean, which cycles on accidental moon power.
If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different
than the other
animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed
with specific (not by chance) formula.
Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year
with a couple million
animals, a temple less
than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14
animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»
G. K. Chesterton was being more
than merely witty when he defined the married couple as a four «legged
animal infused
with love.
This is the central point of man that is different
than animal as we were gifted
with capacity to worship God (worship is closely connected
with the emotive expressions of love).
To date, more
than 500 pets have been reunited
with their human companions, thanks to the efforts of the Joplin Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (ASPCA).
We should not, perhaps, pay to see the performance of an actress who must get herself drunk in order to act out a sex scene
with a married co-star, any more
than the film industry should allow
animals to be harmed in the making of a film.
To the contrary, it is more fantastic
than we can imagine — hundreds of billions (trillions) of galaxies
with hundreds of billions (trillions) of stars, nearly all of which have planets, some right for life; planets so hot that they rain glass; stars made of diamonds; the lineage of
animals from singled celled organisms to the incredible variety that exists today
with their unique adaptations.
Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees
with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of
animals less seriously
than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»
Singer was more responsible
than anyone else for making the term «speciesism» known, beginning in 1975
with his highly influential book
Animal Liberation and continuing
with his widely professed proposal that so - called human non-persons can be killed (infanticide or non-voluntary euthanasia) because of their «lower» moral status.
The mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed
than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares
with the
animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.
Really, there are many more important spiritual concerns to investigate
than as to whether Jesus was born in a stable
with animals around him.
I looked at Leviticus ch 7 and there was no reference there to a milk offering rather
than a blood offering and to do
with the skin of the
animal, that was to be given to the priest.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for
animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes
with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more
than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not
with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
They're worst
than wild
animals, even when they disguise themselves
with some cult / religion.
The conversational and multi-generational Club is more natural to us, being the political
animals we are
with all that implies,
than the hippie frenzy or the rock mosh - pit, or the typical overwhelm - the - senses dance club of today.
During these billions of years life existed without man, and could continue to exist without him, in some ways even better
than with him, since man is a pitiless destroyer of many
animal and plant species.
Oh, and yes, of course I mean that individual
animals — as beings
with distinct personal natures — belong to that restored cosmos, no less
than individual humans.
Woolman made few accommodations
with life; he walked great distances rather
than ride «on
animals groomed by slaves or in commercial coaches whose teamsters drove the horses too hard.»
The problem is that organized religion is as much political
animal as any other human convention involving more
than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do
with what one actually believes...
Nonetheless, the media are awash
with conflicting food studies, and confused consumers are eating more
animal - based foods
than ever before.
If the self is identical
with the natural world, then it is no more
than one of the
animals.
It is my assumption that along these lines one can argue
with Whitehead's tacit support that soul is more fully developed in men in general
than in
animals in general.
If these experts are to be trusted — and I here recall a world - famous biologist
with whom I once talked — the actual suffering in the
animal world is much less severe
than it seems to us to be.
So, the flood was probably incredibly huge and localized such that it wiped humanity out other
than Noah and family (along
with the
animals which humanity was in contact
with).
I hate to see creatures killed, but I know enough about my Native American friends and their religious practices, to know that this is really important to them, and that they treat
animals with a lot more reverence
than we do!