Just Resting

[Sweder]

I'm morally split on the animal welfare thing. Part of me, the part that is a father of a child with a life-threatening condition, would happily see any number of animals experimented on in search of a cure. Let the carcasses pile up, I say, in the name of science and the betterment of mankind.

The other part thinks that how a society treats the weak and the vulnerable, no matter how many legs they may have, says more about it and its people than GDP or IMF World Rankings. The fact that a country populated by many with so little still cares for it's stray dogs speaks volumes to me.

Suffering in any form is abhorrent.
As it happens I joined the PlanZheros project two years ago, encouraging local business to pass on their surplus to those in need via discrete food banks and saintly missionaries. It works on a local level. You'd be surprised at how many families in this outwardly wealthy, rural idyl can't afford to feed themselves properly.