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hedweb.com - 11/22/2009
Blueprint for a Cruelty-Free World
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Our supposed lack of complicity due to impotence. Throughout most of history, mankind could no more contemplate reordering the food chain than contemporary humans could contemplate changing, say, Planck's constant or the rest mass of an electron. What happens in Nature is traditionally "just the ...

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Accelerating Future:  Reprogramming Predators, Abolitionism

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Futurismic:  Eradicate cruelty: “reprogram” predators

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Reprogramming Predators, Abolitionism
Accelerating Future — David Pearce on reprogramming predators. Thanks to Franz Fuchs for the pointer.

Links for 23rd November 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board — ... not much difference between local and national viewpoints. In fact, protests often characterized as NIMBY are, instead, really national activism drawn to a specific place because that's where stuff is going down." Tagged with: NIMBY • public • opinion • polls • protest • activism • flashpoint • localisation • environment • community • Reprogramming Predators : Blueprint for a Cruelty-Free World "Even the hypothetical ...

Eradicate cruelty: “reprogram” predators
Futurismic — ... comes a provocative essay by one David Pearce, who suggests that not only would it be possible for us to engineer a biosphere without suffering, but that it is our moral duty to do so. Global veganism in the wake of readily available vat-grown meat would be merely the start of the project; next would be the engineered extinction of all obligate predator species. [image by ...

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Accelerating Future — ... picked up my link to David Pearce’s essay “Reprogramming Predators”, which throws out some ideas for preventing things like, oh, I don’t know, ...

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