<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for This Gives Us Paws]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by danielbarker123 http://www.grist.org/article/this-gives-us-paws/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:37:15 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/this-gives-us-paws/1 stop the fire

As a founding father pointed out two centuries ago, the price of freedom is eternal vigilence.

From big business to big government, we must never trust.  This is just the latest example.

I fully support groups such as PETA to investigate animal abuse; PETA does a good job finding problems relating to animal health much faster than the government can.

It is easy to demand business to not hurt anyone.  Obviously a corporation can insure it doesn't go around shooting people.  It is the indirect hurt that is so much harder to confront.  There are literally hundreds of thousands of chemicals, we only know the full effects of just a handful, and about six to eight new ones are introduced each day.

If business were to stop all operations until every chemical were fully tested to see how it interacts with all the hundreds of thousands of other chemicals nothing would get done for decades.

Bottom line:  let us live with nature.  Let us consume less.  I practice family planning, I have no children and plan on having one child and adoption.  We complain about what corporations do then go out and buy an appliance we don't need.  Is it any wonder billions of people without food and other basic needs hate us enough to commit terrorism?

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As a founding father pointed out two centuries ago, the price of freedom is eternal vigilence.

From big business to big government, we must never trust.  This is just the latest example.

I fully support groups such as PETA to investigate animal abuse; PETA does a good job finding problems relating to animal health much faster than the government can.

It is easy to demand business to not hurt anyone.  Obviously a corporation can insure it doesn't go around shooting people.  It is the indirect hurt that is so much harder to confront.  There are literally hundreds of thousands of chemicals, we only know the full effects of just a handful, and about six to eight new ones are introduced each day.

If business were to stop all operations until every chemical were fully tested to see how it interacts with all the hundreds of thousands of other chemicals nothing would get done for decades.

Bottom line:  let us live with nature.  Let us consume less.  I practice family planning, I have no children and plan on having one child and adoption.  We complain about what corporations do then go out and buy an appliance we don't need.  Is it any wonder billions of people without food and other basic needs hate us enough to commit terrorism?

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