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All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:
A new paper outlines the efforts of scientists at the University of Strasbourg to determine why the European hamster has been dying off at an alarming rate... Previously, the rodent's diet consisted of grains, roots and insects. But the regions in which its numbers were dropping have been taken over by the industrial farming of corn... Researchers in France have discovered that a monotonous diet of corn causes hamsters to exhibit some unusual behavior -- cannibalism.
âoeImproperly cooked maize-based diets have been associated with higher rates of homicide, suicide and cannibalism in humans," the researchers point out, and they believe it's the absence of vitamin B3 which is affecting the hamsters' nervous system and triggering dementia-like behavior. Hamsters are already an endangered species in Western Europe, so this is being heavily-researched. And they obviously won't improve their chances of survival with cannibalism.
âoeImproperly cooked maize-based diets have been associated with higher rates of homicide, suicide and cannibalism in humans," the researchers point out, and they believe it's the absence of vitamin B3 which is affecting the hamsters' nervous system and triggering dementia-like behavior. Hamsters are already an endangered species in Western Europe, so this is being heavily-researched. And they obviously won't improve their chances of survival with cannibalism.
Excuse me, we are talking about Trump. Please stay on topic, thank you.
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan
That is nonsense. No person has any value other than through its relationships with others. A fetus unwanted that will not be missed has no value.
The only damage done by anyone's death is measured by the loss of those left behind. The dead person has no regrets, and suffers no loss by his death.
And do not raise the specter of the pain of dying, for that only argues in favor of an improved process.
Example: A solitary person living in the wilderness struck from behind by a space rock that obliterates his head in an instant, suffers no pain, no regret, and leaves neither behind for anyone else. There is no loss to anyone.
Argue if you must that the mother must suffer from the decision, but that only means that the mother is the only one that should decide.
Why I'm in favor of legal 75th trimester abortions. At the demand of _either_ parent after the first 3 (when only the mother can pull the plug).
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You're making my point. Since you (and hopefully others) would suffer emotionally should you kill me, then the conditions are not met.
Mine is a relativist philosophy of the value of life. The value only obtains in relationship to others. Absent any such relationship(s) the timing of the end of that life is of no consequence.
Consequently, I recommend that you move out of your mom's basement and make some friends.