Temple Grandin (one of my heroes) on her website described the two kinds of animal welfare issues.

Abuse and Neglect

These are abuses that good livestock producers would not tolerate. They are animal cruelty abuses such as dragging downed crippled cattle, rough handling, throwing baby dairy calves, beating an animal, starving an animal, failing to provide shelter, or shackling and hoisting an animal prior to ritual slaughter. Almost all problems which occur during handling, transport and slaughter of livestock are Category #1 abuses. I estimate that over 75% of all livestock producers, transporters and slaughter plants do a good job of preventing these abuses. However, 10% allow Category #1 abuses to occur frequently and another 10% occasionally have problems with animal abuse. This is an area where the industry needs to clean up it's house and take action against the bad operators.

Boredom and restricted environment

Whereas the animal welfare issues in Category #1 concern obvious animal abuses and cruelty, the issues in Category #2 do not involve pain. Category #2 welfare issues are animal boredom and abnormal behaviours which may occur in barren environments that do not provide adequate stimulation. Examples would be gestation stalls for sows, veal calf housing in individual stalls, and chickens in cages. In some cases boredom problems are easy to correct. Providing small handfuls of straw or toys to pigs will often prevent abnormal behaviour.

**This is an area where more research is needed.**

I'm not sure which side the feminists are on; do they want to be allowed to wear the head scarf, or are they supporting the ban to keep women from being less than equal to men? It's a strange question, but the symbol is just that, symbolic for the greater struggle between Islamism and Turkishness. Ataturk wanted a new, modern Turkish state, and I can't see him supporting any Islamist reforms like this one. This is about more than clothing, it is question of whether Turkey is going to be a secular state or a religious one. And the question is far from answered.

I bet you could find a hell of a lot more similar statements if you compared rhetoric opposing the minimum wage to that opposing abolition. And, to be fair, abolition of slavery DID wreak havoc on the economy of the South, above and beyond that of the civil war. It was well worth it, but it did.

This is the kind of nonscientific, nonproductive rhetoric that global warming alarmists use all the time. Promote "Goodthink" by comparing your opponents to slave owners, and challenge their arguments with non-sequitors-

"the same senator Inhofe who insisted upon ‘sound science,’ consensus among scientists and complete scientific certainty before devoting funds to climate mitigation, found sufficient justification in inconclusive information from the US intelligence service, contradicting the conclusions of the chief UN weapons inspector, to start a war on Iraq."

Global warming advocates say their climate predictions are based on the soundest of science, yet Inhofe is held in fault for supporting the conclusions of every major foreign intelligence service before the Iraq war, a very nonscientific endeavor.

This rhetoric is poisoned.

The individually wrapped foods are for our protection. You don't want to contaminate the food if the outer package is damaged. What's worse, a little more plastic trash, or an outbreak of food poisoning?

You are a pilot, not an environmental scientist. I love this column, so please don't start preaching at us!

"Regardless of what happened that night, dozens if not hundreds of interviews with returning veterans have shown that throughout the war, the military regularly responded to real or perceived threats with overwhelming firepower. Some of those incidents clearly resulted in unwarranted civilian deaths. Other attacks may have inadvertently resulted in an unknown but potentially significant number of civilian casualties. (It should also be said that many officers and soldiers have taken great pains to protect civilians throughout the war.)"

Interviews?!? Where are the quotes, where is the evidence? What is an unwarranted civilian death? The insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are guilty of every war crime in the book, this is a documented, well-known FACT. The insurgents are guilty of killing civilians, mistreatment of prisoners and civilians, perfidy, taking hostages, and every other "grave" crime proscribed by the Geneva Conventions. And you object that we used air power to silence a threat to one of our bases. You have a very poor idea of your role as a war reporter Mr. Benjamin.

The first rule of any elite is- me, first. The superclass certainly has that. Next is an amoral familism, putting their own family group above anything else, like Kofi Annan aiding his son Kojo when he defrauded the Oil for Food. They have that too. They want to look out for the "Family of Man", they think of themselves as parents. Guess who the children are. You, you snotty little prole.

The "traditional governments" that are eroded? Those are all the western governments, you know, the ones that grant rights, and restrict the power of government, and prevent third-world style dictatorships. Basically, they want to roll back all the rights people have fought and died for since the Magna Carta.

Call me a nationalist, but I think anyone who fits the membership criteria for a superclass, including the transnational cosmopolitanism, needs to be ______.