On 17/05/2021 12:15, whisky-dave wrote:
On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 13:10:55 UTC+1, Fredxx wrote:
On 15/05/2021 19:03, T i m wrote:
On Sat, 15 May 2021 18:03:45 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

New UK law:

"During a visit to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, the Environment Secretary said that the Government would take a significant step forwards on animal welfare by formally recognising animals as sentient beings through a new Animal Sentience Bill that will be introduced to Parliament tomorrow (13 May), putting animal welfare at the very heart of government policy decision making."

Hopefully good news (and there will be plenty of more of that to
come).
That will be a first if you support animal welfare while an animal is
alive.

Be difficult to support welfare for animal or human when they are dead.
We cancled the right to have friends and familly at a funural during the pamdemic.

Quite, it shows an inconsistent policy.

If it improves farm animal welfare and demand humane slaughter, to
include the stunning or bolting of animals before slaughter then that
will indeed be a step forward.

Yes, but what worries me is whether religious beliefs will override it.

T i m doesn't attack these forms of slaughter, and passes where I state
he endorses religious practises employed in cruel animal slaughter so
can only be true.

Religious belief change like the wind. They are there for the rest of
society to pander to in fear of being called a racist of you don't.

If animals are to be recognised as sentient beings, shouldn't that mean everyone must become vegetarian?

No, because that means we aren't recognising the sentience and so
rights of egg laying chickens or cows.
If we want children's brains to develop normally then they require a
As babies they don't need meat.
natural balanced diet to include meat products.

But one day there might be a way around this meat is just chemicals and their reactions.
And then it;s just how much meat do we need.
During WWII when less meat was availble it seemed that peolpe didn't really suffer too much because of this.

There may well be a method of creating the range of organic compounds to
replace meat. But fanatical vegans don't think this is worthy of support
either.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...r-intelligence
And the indoctrination that leads to such exploitation starts at an
early age:

https://ibb.co/wcMQjvn
Quite, we evolved the lactase persistent gene years ago.

Some have 'evloved' to not be able to eat nuts although there are three distinct things
we ignorantly refer to as nuts.

I don't know much about nut allergies. There was an article some time
ago that correlated how we are slow to introduce nuts to children, for
fear of choking, and this might add to this allergy.

It seems it's best to introduce smooth peanut butter to children as soon
as possible, to prevent the severe reaction in later life.

Beware of some girls in thialand (lady boys) they contain nuts. ;-)

Thank you for the warning :-)