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Little House on the Prairie. Charming stories of pioneering America’s prairielands or Ayn Randesque libertarian propaganda?

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

The point being made wasn’t that businesses raised prices because market forces forced them to but that some businesses raised prices behind a false claim or false impression that they had to. The operative descriptor being “false.” Business A watches business B raise prices because their supplier is exper…

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jakelafort wrote:

Unseen, i agree that the INDUSTRY would end. However horse racing would continue on a limited basis. There is a long history of humans being attracted to races. Whether it is other humans, dogs or horses.

Not only races competitions to be wagered on with all kinds of stakes from money (of course) to if your (whatever) beats…[Read more]

Unseen, i agree that the INDUSTRY would end. However horse racing would continue on a limited basis. There is a long history of humans being attracted to races. Whether it is other humans, dogs or horses. If the gambling were made illegal then it would occur privately.

I am not sure horse racing will last. PETA was the impetus behind killing dog…[Read more]

@Jake

Let’s bring this to an end. To my mind, gambling is the only reason there’s a horse racing industry and the presence of a profit motive is the main driver behind the race horse deaths. Take the money out of it, and the motivation to overdrive the animals will be greatly reduced.

However, like eating meat, horse racing is one of those…[Read more]

So, the band has committed to a promo with a Montreal radio station (call letters CHOM). However, Ale can’t make it so do they cancel? No, they show up and wing it as a duo of Dany and Pau. Pau does a lot of the singing. Interesting and shows their professionalism. The audience loved them.

Unseen,

“We all have our blind spots, Jake. A horse would be much happier in a pasture than with a midget whipping its ass as it’s forced right up to the very limit of what its very physical structure allows. And, sadly, sometimes beyond.”

I should not have laughed at midget whipping its ass but hell i am human. In the case of thoroughbreds t…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Most racing thoroughbreds, however, are treated like gold. They are expensive investments to purchase and maintain. I think the stable hands often have it tougher than the horses. I would be fine with racing appaloosas, paints and arabians. Those breeds are much less frail and subject to injury or fatal breakdowns.

We all have…[Read more]

Unseen, You’ve missed the idioscyncracy i was pointing out: That another sentient life on a par with the beloved and doted animal is condemned to a lifetime of misery before it is executed. We grow up to view cute cute kittahns with those big adoring eyes as objects of love. The oink oink pig, great big fat pink F’r, who is perhaps more…[Read more]

@Jake

An idiosyncrasy is a “peculiarity or oddity of behavior or attitude.” What makes liking meat or treating some creatures differently from others “idiosyncratic” when it is so universal? As for the horrific conditions, our own lives involve horror, especially here in America where I very likely may die a horrible death because I simply can’t…[Read more]

Unseen, you are missing my point.

No quibble about love of cats. No gainsaying the love/friendship/attachment/bond so many of us form with cats and dogs-for some weirdos, snakes and reptiles. Feeling for one rather than another is human although it is mostly a matter of keeping an animal. If you have one you are likely to develop those loving…[Read more]

onyangomakagutu wrote:

Is that really the hill you want to make your last stand on?

Well, corporations have been doing this all along. Not that it is the right thing to do. Maybe the Fed should have intervened in the market to control prices because i don’t see how individual businesses operating in a free market economy would not respond to i…

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jakelafort wrote:

So it is on an individual basis in terms of how we ascribe value and love to certain animals. Concomitantly we rip into our steak while there is nothing to distinguish the value of the ill-treated and ultimately slaughtered as meat for our table from the beloved kitten. Likewise silly narratives and ideology make us look askance…

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Unseen i despise Christianity. I am not however so delusional that i blame it for us eating meat.

I was making an observation about how narrow and self-absorbed we are in both the macrocosm and microcosm. The early christians had the geocentric perspective. The earth was the center of the universe. Not until Copernicus published his work…[Read more]

@PB

I know what you mean, in a way. I have some of their lyrics going through my mind when I’m taking a shower, for example (“Mayday. Mayday. This ship is going down”).

I am infatuated by them. I’ve described them in Youtube comments as the only band I’m aware of that people are falling in love with.  Hence the Warning Army phenomenon. If they…[Read more]

@Jake

Probably the #1 thing we could do to reduce the human footprint is to drastically reduce the number of humans down to somewhere what it was when those Siberians walked across the ice bridge into North America.

Blaming meat eating on Christianity is overthinking it. People were eating mammals, birds, and fish long before Abraham. Even in…[Read more]

Is a unified homogenous global approach dictated by the World Health Organization a good thing? Many countries are considering signing on to a WHO treaty that would do just that.

The WHO is dominated by China, Big Pharma, and private megadonors like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is…[Read more]