11-22-2014, 08:49 PM
(11-22-2014, 03:10 PM)Catherine Wrote: Now we struggle with the idea that some animals are lesser and feel less. It is going to take work to teach people that all living beings feel and deserve good treatment.The scientific community inherited the views of the vile Descartes, who tied up his wife's pet dog and dissected it alive to "prove" that they did not have minds, so could not feel pain. The cries of agony were like the sounds of a machine's parts in movement, he claimed. See http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/09/29/desc...e-a-point/
Thankfully, ideas are moving forward, see for example the Cambridge Declaration on animal Awareness: http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDe...usness.pdf
How long it will take for these more enlightened ideas to filter through to farming (especially factory farming) and to general public sensitivity is difficult to say. But these poor chickens in the USA need the protection of federal law - and quickly.
