Ultimately however, the democratic process only guarantees the process, and not the content. If we were to start from scratch and examine existing protections afforded to animals, and then decide some were beyond a bare minimum standard, I doubt animal activists would permit their removal. The tendency would be to add increasing protections to the point where the burden would become unjustifiable. So in a practical sense translating strong moral convictions to legislation is not always feasible.

*However*, I agree that cruelty to animals is wrong. The solution is a social one: simply stigmatise people who are cruel to animals. Protest about them. Embarass them. Boycott cruel meat producers. Change people’s opinions.

Just don’t co-opt the violence of the government to your cause.

As for the second part about cosmetics: let the market decide. If people decide that they don’t like the idea of animal testing then cosmetics companies have a commercial incentive to reduce animal testing. No laws are necessary, and no terrorising of researchers is either.

“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.”
Favor.
And disfavor.

They point out Africans’ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.

The roots of racism are not of this earth.

Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.

The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.

Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:

1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management –
3. Mafia (evil) aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere (“On planets where they approved evil.”)

Then we come to terrestrial management:

4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans – they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia – the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.

Survival of the favored.

Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1986 James Bond View to a Kill – 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.

Journal: 10 composition books + 39 megs of text files