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Quite appropriate.

Honestly, if you told almost any American to add 0.25 oz of salt, they would just stare at you blankly.

If you instead asked them to add 2.25 tsp of salt, they would go grab the spoon labeled "1 tsp" and the spoon labeled "1/4 tsp," and measure it out (that is, unless they're lazy like me and realize that that 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons, so I can just mostly fill up the "1 tbsp" spoon).

Americans just use volume when measuring food instead of weight while cooking, except, for example, potatoes and meat.

Basically every American kitchen has a set of measuring spoons (usually 1/8 tsp, 1/4 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1tsp, 1/2 tbsp, 1 tbsp), a set of measuring cups (1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 cup), and a liquid measuring cup with scales in cups, fl oz and mL ( http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/u-meascup-liq.jpg ).

I agree.

I have been vegetarian most of my life yet I used to hunt and eat animals. I differ from other vegetarians in that I see no ethical issue with eating what you personally take responsibility for killing.

Paying other people to kill animals for you however is cowardly, it's an industry built on cowardice, and is about as far away from the Great Hunter every meat eater loves to cite, in an effort to argue that eating meat is a vital part of human culture. Well, it's not. Worse, it's environmentally detrimental, causes gross hormone imbalances in humans and is horrifically cruel.

You don't need to eat meat to live a very healthy and active long life. You eat meat because you like the taste. Then go out and take another's life to defend your hedonism. Look at it in the eyes while you cuts its throat. Gut it, bleed it and eat it.

I'd personally kill every Dolphin myself if it would save a human life.

Ah, if you kill every dolphin, you'll also be killing humans. Though rare, dolphins have saved humans, especially from sharks.

Falcon

The geek has a post-card view of the past.

Horses had to be replaced every two hours or so -- meaning you needed to maintain eight to ten horses for each car. 8,000 horses for the largest systems. The Horse Car Era.

Each horse unloading 22 pounds of shit onto the streets each day.

In New York in 1908 horse droppings were described as the breeding grounds for sixteen billion flies. The old gray mare was not the ecological marvel, in American cities, that horse lovers like to believe.

Not only does the Bible stress that nature reflects God's glory and greatness, but the Scriptures also make it clear that humans have been given a special responsibility to protect and care for the natural environment. Yet ironically, this Biblical mandate has often been used as a license to despoil and destroy instead of an obligation to protect and preserve.

Nazi KZ Doctors???

Pigeons are not people....

Repeat that a couple of times, please, perhaps it will sink in.

A lot of this un-ethical kind of stuff is going on in your backyard university lab probably, it's just not in the news. Russians tried to do the same with dolphins and other animals, Israelis do this with monkeys (see hear ). You should go tour your local pig farm and see how those animals are treated.

Just because these are Chinese scientists, i.e. foreigners (and of course, probably commie terrorists, right?) that we are all appalled.

It's the same kind of lame thinking that leads to crap in more traditional sports as well, from squeezing another guy's testicles in a football pile so he lets go of the ball to milkshaking in horseracing and everything in between.

Good sportmanship will always be an ideal to uphold and strive toward.

Heifer has the heart in the right place, but lacks the brains. Animal husbandry depletes the basic resources (i.e. water, soil nutrients) a lot faster than crop agriculture for a lot less returns. Since the places that need help the most have limited basic resources, donating them animals only compounds their problems. It would make more sense to help them learn efficient crop rotations instead of raising livestock. In places where crop agriculture would provide only subsistence, animal husbandry makes even less sense (unless we plan to furnish free feed with donated livestock). Heifer's BOD connections to Missionary Churches should raise an eybrow at least (http://www.all-creatures.org/discuss/hpi-kb.html.

You didn't buy a brace of rabbits. You donated X amount of dollars to the general Heifer fund. They decided where your money went. Yet another reason to not trust these people. There is a decent critique of the organization here.

As for grass grazing of cattle: If the grass grows so could grains. There are hundreds of grains humans can live off of, that don't promote soil erosion like overgrazing livestock.

Being vegan, I have a few problems with Heifer. Sending livestock to people in 3rd world countries is really dumb. You need to grow a significant amount of grains to feed livestock, which can be just as easily used for human consumption. Livestock is just not ideal for these kinds of economies.

That reminded me of this.