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Incidentally, how about we get some pictures of humans cut up for surgery so we can all shudder at how gory they are?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:29:51 AM EST

And how did Einstein know anything more about this issue than anyone else?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:30:38 AM EST
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He didn't, but he's Einstein. As we descent into the middle ages, he takes on the role vacated by good old aristotle..

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:32:25 AM EST
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I rather fear that the lay people are going to be very confused when Einstein's work is superseded.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:53:01 AM EST
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Oh, c'mon, the press publishes articles about "was Einstein wrong?" year in, year out.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:12:19 AM EST
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Einstein was not a vegetarian for very long, but the man's knowledge on the topic would have been, erm, relative.

The only reason I put him there is because it kicks ass to quote Einstein. I intented this diary as a means of getting some people to start thinking about how much meat they really need to eat, so I think a quote by Pee-Wee Herman's Cowntess Cow would have had a much cheaper effect to that end.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:47:36 AM EST
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The funniest thing about relativity is that Einstein's theory is about absolutes.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:51:02 AM EST
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You know I was initially going to put an artist's photograph at the top of my diary. It was called "slaughterhouse" and showed naked men hanging upside down for slaughter. I found it using google, so may not be able to find it again.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:43:33 AM EST
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And that would illustrate what?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:45:54 AM EST
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Well, naked men hanging in a slaughterhouse? Ahhh I think I know where this is going, you're going to say that it should have been naked women, you dirty dirty dirty man ;))

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:48:44 AM EST
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I'm afraid it would have to be pictures of children and adolescents, which is even more disturbing.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:53:07 AM EST
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Oh damn, you're absolutely right. And extremely obese ones too.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:56:02 AM EST
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Why obese? I agree with your points on industrial production, but the only case where excessive fat is produced is in fat ducks and geese. Chicken, for example, are not reared to be overfat, but to have a lot of meat. BTW, this is mostly done by selecting and crossing breeds -- to a point where cruelty does intervene, imo, because some of the breeds they come up with are not viable in "real" circumstances and some can hardly walk... But your points upthread about weight etc, and this comment on obesity, don't seem to me right.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:22:39 AM EST
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And in the case of beef it's achieved by using growth hormones.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:26:28 AM EST
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Heavy, muscular, dense, meaty, obese, bahhh, what's the difference? I think I should have said "disproportionate" then.

And while we're at it, come back upthread so I can blaggard you and Jérôme on the deforestation issue ;)))

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:26:54 AM EST
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