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...student animal rights organization attempted to arrange a forum that would include Jeff Armstrong, dean of the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and myself. I was prepared to argue that animal use is not necessary and that modern slaughter methods and factory farm confinement practices are cruel. As chair of the United Egg Producers Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and as an adviser to McDonald’s on animal welfare issues, Armstrong would have undoubtedly taken the opposing view. Considering that he lends his name and prestige (and his MSU affiliation) to these methods and practices, he seemed...
...exactly what yuppie meant in the 1980s. A proud Inupiat, Nasuk said that when her people were hunter-gatherers in the freezing North Slope, they sometimes had to leave behind the weak and elderly. "My understanding is that elders would voluntarily stay behind. It wouldn't have been a cruel practice. It would have been an acceptance of 'I'm dying. Let me be on my way,'" she said. Which is exactly how I'll put it on my death panel: "We're leaving you to be on your way out of this superexpensive hospital...
...nice all the time leads them to repress some of their most powerful emotions and deprives them of skills to express those feelings. As a result, a lot of anger gets expressed indirectly, like online or behind someone's back, earning girls a reputation for being sneaky and cruel. Again, that's not about girls themselves but about the culture that they're growing up in. (Read "The Myth About Boys...
...need to demand honesty in other people. Otherwise we will get a canned affirmation. At the same time, we have to demand honesty of ourselves. We have to be the kind of people who don't tell white lies. We don't have to be cruel and totally blunt, but we have to convey information honestly. The paradox here is that if you are 100% honest and blunt, you will not be a popular person. Honesty is the best policy. But it's not a perfect policy...
...Angeles Cruel and Unusual Prisons A panel of federal judges has ordered California to cut its prison population by more than a quarter, ruling that medical care in the overcrowded facilities is so poor that it violates convicts' constitutional rights. Over the next two years, the cash-strapped state must find a way to trim more than 40,000 inmates from its total of about 150,000 (the system is designed for 84,000). Attorney general Jerry Brown said he will appeal the 184-page order...