Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a deeply worrying situation. Why do the more senior, and one would imagine wiser, members of the Phoenix club feel that this is appropriate treatment of animals? Would they feel as comfortable treating a human child in this way? Presumably not. But stop and think for a moment why a child would never be treated in this fashion, whereas there is little concern about the well-being of chickens. Perhaps the Phoenix club seniors feel that chickens are like the caricatures in a Gary Larson cartoon--silly beasts doing silly things. If so, why not do what...
Like humans, chickens have emotions and thoughts. Their emotions and thoughts are unlikely to be exactly like ours, but that is not really the issue. The issue is: How do chickens feel when they are cooped up in a small box? How do they feel when they are being chased around a dining hall, with people who are orders of magnitude larger than they are peering down on them? How must they feel being kept away from other chickens...
...hope this example provides a flavor of what chickens feel and think. What the students in the Phoenix club have done is inexcusable. Not only do they have no right to treat chickens with such horrible care, they have no right to treat any animal in such unthoughtful and uncaring ways. There are complicated issues associated with the use of animals for research, a topic that I am intimately familiar with. But a case such as this is unambiguous. It should never have started and should stop immediately. One hopes that these students will feel remorse concerning their pathetic treatment...
...almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, hed start talking like Bill Cosby on Picture Pages. Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and clichŽ-ridden as Nadine Gordimers regrettable new release, Living in Hope and History...
...However, this energy was not maintained. Our Lady Peace was once a band that could fire a club up with their heavy riffs, unique vocals, full sound and turbulent lyrics. Now they only dabble pretentiously in gimmicks, creating some amazing singles but never acquiring a sustainable feel...