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How humans are not physically created to eat meat
How humans are not physically created to eat meat
The following article was sent to me today. I do not know who wrote it as that information was not supplied, but it is quite excellent and well worth the read. I think it may be especially good for sending to others who may be on the fence about this topic.
"Although some historians and anthropologists say that man is historically omnivorous, our anatomical equipment teeth, jaws, and digestive system favor a fleshless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets."
And much of the world still lives that way. Even in most industrialized countries, the love affair with meat is less than a hundred years old. It started with the refrigerator car and the twentieth-century consumer society. But even with the twentieth century, man's body hasn't adapted to eating meat. The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, "Man's structure, external and internal, compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables constitute his natural food." The chart below compares the anatomy of man with that of carnivorous and herbivorous animals.
When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Humans are clearly not designed to digest and ingest meat.
Meat-eaters: have claws
Herbivores: no claws
Humans: no claws
Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue
Herbivores: perspire through skin pores
Humans: perspire through skin pores
Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding
Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding
Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding
Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly
Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in the stomach to digest meat
Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater
Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater
Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.
Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits
Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits
Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)
Clearly if humans were meant to eat meat we wouldn't have so many crucial ingestive/digestive similarities with animals that are herbivores.
Many people ask me, "If we weren't supposed to eat meat than why do we?". It is because we are conditioned to eat meat. Also, the ADA (American Dietetic Association) tells us that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on a vegetarian or Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet."
A popular statement that meat eaters say is; "In the wild, animals kill other animals for food. It's a part of nature." First of all, we are not in the wild. Secondly, we can easily live without eating meat and killing. We all would be healthier this way. Finally, as I have already shown, we weren't meant to eat meat. Meat putrefies within 4 hours after consumption and the remnants cling to the walls of the intestines for 14-21 days. If a person is suffering from constipation the rotting meat can stay in the intestines for months or years. Furthermore, the saliva in humans is more alkaline, whereas, in the case of flesh-eating or preying animals, it is clearly acidic. The alkaline saliva does not act properly on meat.
The final point I would like to make on how we as humans were not meant to eat meat is this; all omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat their meat raw. When a lion kills an herbivore for food, it tears right into the stomach area to eat the organs that are filled with blood (nutrients). While eating the stomach, liver, intestine, etc., the lion laps the blood in the process of eating the dead animal's flesh. Even bears that are omnivores eat salmon raw. However, eating raw bloody meat disgust us as humans. This is why we must cook it and season it to buffer the taste of the flesh.
If a deer is burned in a forest fire a carnivorous animal will NOT eat its flesh. Even circus lions have to be feed raw meat so that they will not starve to death. If humans were truly meant to eat meat then we would eat all of our meat raw and bloody. The thought of eating such meat makes one's stomach turn. This is my point on how we as humans are conditioned to believe that animal flesh is good for us and that we were meant to consume it for survival and health purposes. If we are true carnivores or omnivores we would eat animal flesh raw and bloody. Cooking our meat and seasoning it with salt, ketchup, mayo, mustard or tabasco sauce disguise the awful taste of flesh. This is the only way we as humans would eat meat because we refuse to eat it raw and bloody like real carnivores.
Overall advantages of vegetarianism
You can reap a lot of benefits by being a vegetarian and people have become more aware of the health benefits of being a vegetarian. Animal rights issues is only one of the reasons why people decide to go on a vegetarian diet. People are beginning to care more about the environment. However, the main reason why most people go on a vegetarian diet is due to the health benefits.
Meat is not good for you as it clogs your thinking. This is especially true if you eat red meat; white meat has less fat compared to red meat. Excessive intake of fats into your body can result in having a high level of cholesterol. If you think that not eating meat is going to make you look scrawny or unhealthy please think again. Just imagine that cows, goats, gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses and so on are all vegetarians (herbivores) but look at how tough these animals are. They also have a longer lifespan compared to the carnivores (meat eating animals).
If you look at the chicken and vulture (carnivores), these animals eat just about everything and notice how unhealthy these animals look. The Chinese believe that the chi or life force in your body is less when you consume meat and so do the Indians with their ancient yogic principles [their life force was called prana].
The great Tai Chi masters of China were adept at preserving their chi. Even though some of the masters were not vegetarians they still had a balanced diet. It has now been scientifically proven that a balanced vegetarian diet is better compared to a diet that is taken with meat.
There are a lot of misconceptions about being a vegetarian; protein is one of the main topics of debate as a lot of people think that you can only get protein from meat. Vegetarians get a lot of protein when they eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes. What vegetarians don't get is the excess protein of the traditional American diet. This type of diet leads to liver toxicity, kidney overload, and mineral deficiency diseases.
A lot of people also think that a vegetarian diet is not a balanced diet. Vegetarian diets have a proportion of three macro nutrients which are complex carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Vegetarian food sources (plants) tend to be higher sources of most micro-nutrients. Another myth that needs to be clarified is the so-called lack of calcium among vegetarians. Many vegetables especially green leafy ones have a good supply of calcium. The truth is that vegetarians suffer less from osteoporosis (a deficiency of calcium that leads to weak bones).
It is not my intention to force people to become vegetarians. However, vegetarianism is my answer to complete health and wellness. The three issues to consider in regard to vegetarianism are: spiritual, mental and physical (nutritional).
The spiritually aspiring person attempts to work on his/her self. The purpose of spiritual growth is to move away from the animal nature into the more human nature that God intended for us to have. Meat eating inhibits this. The same science that attempts to ignore the existence of a force higher than man also proved that aggression levels are much higher in meat eaters than non-meat eaters! The animal instincts become more powerful every time you eat meat. Another spiritual aspect of being a meat eater is when one must question the necessity and method of killing animals. However, everyone has their own morals to which they must determine for themselves. It is not the purpose of my dissertation to force a specific moral behavior on anyone. Most spiritual people believe in auras. Kirilian photography shows us that a force field still remains around dead or amputated flesh. You adopt that animal aura when you eat its dead flesh. Fruits and vegetables have a higher vibration al aura than animal products.
"You are what you eat", is a slogan that I love to use to show the mental aspect of vegetarianism. When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their muscle tissue. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests the flesh and adapts the same emotions. Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotional cells prior to digestion. The enzymes within fruits and vegetables supply the body with sufficient nutrients that will always uphold a healthy state of mind.
Fruits and vegetables are high in nutrients; the very thing the body needs to live a long disease and pain-free life. The same cannot be said for meat. Nutritionally, the alkaline-based digestive system of humans will not properly break down substantial acid substances of meat.
Colon cancer is rampant! This is caused by the slow evacuation and putrefaction of meat in the colon. Lifelong vegetarians never suffer from such an illness. Many meat eaters believe that meat is the sole source of protein. However, the quality of this protein is so poor that little of it can ever be utilized by humans. This is due to its incomplete combination of amino acids [the building blocks of protein]. Studies show that the average American gets five times the amount of protein needed. It is a common medical fact that excess protein is dangerous. The prime danger of excess meat consumption is uric acid (the waste product produced in the process of digesting protein). Uric acid attacks the kidneys and breaks down the kidney cells called nephrons. This condition is called nephritis; the prime cause of it is overburdening the kidneys. More usable protein is found in one tablespoon of tofu or soybeans than the average serving of meat!
Have you ever seen what happens to a piece of meat that stays in the sun for three days? Meat can stay in the warmth of the intestine for at least four to five days until it is digested. It does nothing but waits for passage. Often, it usually stays there for much longer. Medical doctors have found traces of undigested meat remaining in the colon for up to several months. Colonic therapists always see meat passing through people who have been vegetarians for several years, thus indicating that meat remains undigested there for a long time. Occasionally this has been documented in twenty-year vegetarians!
Some vegetarians claim they are more satisfied after they eat. The reason for this is that there are fewer ketones (protein-digestive substances) formed when vegetable protein is digested. For many, ketones cause a trace amount of nausea which one normally interprets as a decreased desire for food due to this uncomfortable and slight degree of queasiness. Although the body calls for more food, the taste buds tolerate less. This is the danger of the popular high-protein diet substances on the market. This abnormally high level of ketones is called ketosis and refers to the state of starvation that the body incurs due to the inability of the appetite to call for nutrition. Most Americans who eat the wrong type of carbohydrates never recognize the high amount of complex carbohydrates required to overthrow this condition. Keep in mind that when the blood ketone level is too high it results in abnormally acidic blood called acidosis.
Tigers or lions who eat meat have an acid-based digestive system. Our Hydrochloric Acid isn't strong enough to fully digest meat. Also, their intestines measure about five feet long, not twisted and turned, layer over layer, compacted into a small area like the human intestine [which is twenty feet long].
Meats are frozen for a long period of times. Some meats (especially poultry) are frozen up to two years. Cold temperatures do not kill all species of bacteria. Worse than this, as it is shipped and stored, most frozen meat is thawed and refrozen many times. This is almost unavoidable.
Meat eaters suffer more frequently from various types of food poisoning than vegetarian. Statistics show that every American has had food poisoning at least once. When you've felt ill, had diarrhea or were just a little sick to your stomach, no doubt you had not the slightest idea that you had been poisoned by scavengers living off the dead carcass you just ate.
Meat is costly and it is the most wasteful source of resources. When one removes meat from his or her diet a whole new world of eating opens up. Cooking and preparing vegetarian style is no more time consuming than cooking meat. It costs less than half as much to eat vegetarian as it does to eat meat. There are excellent, nutritious, and easy to prepare vegetarian dishes that are Italian, Chinese, Indian, Mid-Eastern, French, Spanish, etc.
Additionally, one can enjoy many other foods that he or she has never tasted because of the meat craze. Most consumers have eaten no more than five or six varieties of beans and legumes. This is less than 10% of what is available.
In my opinion, there are far more benefits to becoming a vegetarian then there are staying a meat eater. Due to the fact that I was raised on meat, I have experienced both worlds. As a meat eater, I was constantly sick, tired, and overweight. As a vegetarian, I am healthy, full of energy and maintaining a perfect weight. I love being a vegetarian and it shows. Because I wish the best for myself, it's just second nature to want the best for others. From my past experience and research, going vegetarian is the best thing anyone can do for their mind, body, and spirit."
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A rocket engine that was built to launch the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape.
The engine, known to NASA engineers as No. F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts to the moon for the first manned landing. The flight went off without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine — it was grounded because of a glitch that cropped up during a test in Mississippi. After Apollo 11, the engine was sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.
Now, young engineers who weren't even born when Armstrong took his one small step are using the bell-shaped motor in tests to determine if technology from Apollo's reliable Saturn V design can be improved for the next generation of U.S. missions back to the moon and beyond by the 2020s.
They're learning to work with technical systems and propellants not used since before the start of the space shuttle program, which first launched in 1981.
Nick Case, 27, and other engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Thursday completed a series of 11 test firings of the F-6049's gas generator, a jetlike rocket that produces 30,000 pounds of thrust and was used as a starter for the engine. They are trying to see whether a second-generation version of the Apollo engine could produce even more thrust and be operated with a throttle for deep-space exploration.
There are no plans to send the old engine into space, but it could become a template for a new generation of motors incorporating parts of its design.
Apollo's fire rekindled
In NASA-speak, the old 18-foot-tall (5.5-meter-tall) motor is called an F-1 engine. During moon missions, five of them were arranged at the base of the 363-foot-tall (111-meter-tall) Saturn V system and fired together to power the rocket off the ground toward Earth orbit.
Thursday's test used one part of the engine, the gas generator, which powers the machinery to pump propellant into the main rocket chamber. It doesn't produce the massive orange flame or clouds of smoke like that of a whole F-1, but the sound was deafening as engineers fired the mechanism in an outdoor test stand on a cool, sunny afternoon.
The device produced a plume that resembled a blowtorch the size of two buses and set fire to a grassy area, which was quickly extinguished.
"It's not small," Case said. "It's pretty beefy on its own."
And just like during the Apollo days, people in north Alabama heard rockets thundering in the distance during tests at Marshall.
"My wife and daughter were in our front yard and she said they could hear it, which was pretty cool," Case said after an earlier test. "We live about 15 miles away."
A single F-1 engine can produce 1.5 million pounds of thrust using a fuel composed of liquid oxygen and refined kerosene, which was not used in the space shuttle.
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The tests were conducted at Marshall in a project conducted with Dynetics Inc. and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, which are studying NASA's possibilities for deep-space missions years from now. The space agency plans to use commercial launches to reach low Earth orbit; larger rockets are required to escape the planet's gravity.
R.H. Coates, an engineer who works with Case in Marshall's liquid propulsion office, said young engineers can learn a lot from the work done by predecessors using slide rules in the 1960s, but no one wants to simply rebuild the old Saturn V engine.
"This wouldn't be your daddy's F-1," Coates said. "We'd use new materials and try to simplify it, update it."
Case started at Marshall as a high school intern in 2002 and has been working there since graduating from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2008. He said today's technology allows things that weren't possible during the 1960s, but he has been impressed by what he learned taking apart the unused Apollo 11 engine.
Engine No. F-6049 didn't fit properly on the Apollo 11 rocket, but it is invaluable now as a testing tool. Coates said a total of 85 F-1 engines were used on 17 Apollo flights without a single failure.
About a dozen F-1 engines remain in Huntsville, home of NASA's main propulsion center, and others are located elsewhere. Most are on display; Case said engineers used engine No. F-6049 for the tests because it was the most complete.
"It is really an excellent booster," he said. "The guys in Apollo had it right."
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Today: "Family Values"
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Looking forward to it, although in the Lexicon of Lies "family values" doesn't hold a candle to the all-time champs:
Seriously... try get through one single day of news-reading without finding one (or all) of those four deployed as a smokescreen for someone's politics.There have been developpments in the Anonymous/WBC situation:
1.-a lot of people are just flat out rejecting the whole thing
2.-many think the proposal was put forward by the WBC to find new people to file lawsuits against (apparently that's how they make their money)
3.-a few still want to go ahead with the 'op' but do it without taking down websites
more info here: http://anonnews.org/?p=press@iceman, of course that's how they make their money, they're a family of lawyers
Enough with the questions on audio problems.
Now, to the topic...
I'm beginning to think that "family values" is not in part defined by love at all as long as it involves the 'one man, one woman' aspect. That those who push this anti-gay rhetoric would rather a people be unhappy than happy. But, I suppose being happy is selfish if it doesn't follow god's unselfish demands.Blake,
That's why it's a smokescreen term.
The debate was over the moment it was pointed out that (1) there is nothing inherent in homosexuals making them bad parents (or kids, for that matter) and (2) marriage is not a zero-sum situation; if every gay person got married tomorrow it wouldn't prevent even one straight from getting married - or not, depending.
Done. Over. Next topic.
Deployment of 'family protection' balderdash spread as opponents of gay marriage and adoption realized there were no other arrows in their quiver save one they are loathe to let fly openly: open, unashamed bigotry.
They've latched onto this rhetoric with such fervor that the sheer derangement of 'supporting' marriage by forbidding it escapes them.
Funny thing: I'm old enough to remember back 30 years or so ago when the Religious Right and other traditionalist-type folks were castigating the so-called "gay lifestyle" for its promiscuity and a lack of enduring social relationships.
Now lots of gay people actually AGREE with them, seeing marriage as worthwhile and desirable... and so, hoist on their own social-normative petard, they volte-face and declare that maybe marriage isn't for everyone after all...On the subject of anti-gay propaganda, I thought I'd share a few videos that help to elucidate and debunk some of these weird claims.
Debunking Paul Cameron and others' claims about homosexuality and pedophilia:
Richard ("The Dick") Coughlan being his usual mildly unhinged self, taking apart the FRC's propaganda:
(Two notes: he misreads the report a bit in the middle, but I didn't catch a substantive error in the facts presented. Also, one thing he didn't address was this idea that gay relationships were more likely to be promiscuous or violent. Setting aside the bad research and moralizing nonsense, we find that the biggest risk factor associated with being given an STD or targeted by domestic abuse is... having a relationship with a man. For both women and men. So it's not really just being gay that does it.)
Description of hypocrisy at Exodus (an ex-gay program):
The ex-gay movement is a shield to the generally hateful rhetoric on the right. "We don't hate homosexuals, they can just go into these programs and then they'll be straight (or celibate)!" These people claim (and I think legitimately believe, or want to believe) that they can cure homosexuality, but 95% of the time they flatly fail, and the remaining 5% tends to be a bit ambiguous as well."The thing that I would actually encourage people to do, is to actually go around and think about how you find out wheather or not something is true"
This started it all for me. I asked the question, "how do I know what I know", as I felt a little dissatisfied and inconsistent with my apologetics and my preaching. My passion use to be saving souls, and in order to better prepare myself, I found some resources on epistemology. To prepare myself for debates. I then decided to better prepare myself for rebuttals to my arguments (that I had researched tirelessly off of carm.org, AIG). Going one step farther when they say things like "polystrate fossils disproves evolution", is where it all started to unravel.
How you know what you know, is the single most important thing to... well... know.Just a thought.
With the concept of "marriage" I've always had the issue that its a concept that it is historically a religious institution that has shifted into a secular contract.
I thought that the essential mistake that the gay community made when demanding the legal protections and rights of married couples was that they demanded to be able to marry.
This allowed the religious groups to mobilise under the idea that "Gays" were interfering with their religion.
Another approach could have been a demand that the government not recognize the religious institution of marriage under "Separation of Church and State", but instead regard it as a de-facto Civil Union with all the rights and protections associated therein.
You can then lobby to change the legal meaning of the secular / government definition of a civil union to include what ever social contracts you wish.
This also allows those religious gay couples to ask themselves if they remain with a church that discriminates against them, or try to change it. But that being a separate purely religious issue now separate from the secular institution of Civil Unions.
It also allows the term marrage to be coopted quietly with secular celebrations of marriage, or just to die as a meme until there are only Civil Unions as the culture shifts.I agree completely, Kharma. I've been ranting about this for years. How is it that our government "respects" a religious ceremony? Seems like the tax cuts and the visitation priviledges and such are explicitly against the first amendment.
Also, to the AE guys. I mentioned you on my humble writing blog. The site is about my work as an author, but folks have been emailing me about my atheism instead. I broke down and did a post about it, directing them here, among other places, to find out why I'm an atheist.
Keep up the good work, folks.
It would be lovely to go back to when this supposed shift of "marriage" from purely religious to secular happened and say "wait...in a hundred years homosexuals are going to want to do this too..." and take that into account and make a better decision, but...it just isn't the issue anymore.
The issue is whether or not it is constitutional for the US government to relegate homosexuals to a separate class that receives a separate legal designation "civil union". I don't think the US government has any business deciding which relationships between two consenting adults are "more valid" without a damn good reason to do so. And so far the only people who seem to be advocating this relegation of homosexuals to another class are trying to do so (some trying to hide it more than others) on religious grounds, with no valid legal justification for doing so.
"Seems like the tax cuts and the visitation priviledges and such are explicitly against the first amendment."
Churches should have to go through the same hoops that other non-profit organizations do to get their 501(c)3 tax designation. I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that I think the unconstitutional part is really the fact that the IRS puts itself in the position of deciding what's a church/religion and what isn't. I have no problem at all with a church getting a tax-exemption, but they shouldn't get it just by "virtue" of being a church...they should get it by proving they are worthy of it, just like any other non-profit has to do.
Another problem is churches are getting away with a lot of things they are "officially" prohibited from doing...endorsing candidates, etc.
I mean look how careful the ACA is about taking official positions on political issues. Churches, in all actuality as far as I know, are actually subject to these same restrictions...it's just, they aren't being taken to task enough for it.@Kharma: The notion that marriage was "originally" a religious institution which got co-opted by secular society is a total myth propagated by the religious people who are trying to hold on to it.
In actually, people have been making contracts around relationships for thousands of years. In 1563 the Catholic Church made a deliberate power grab by passing the
Tametsi Decree, asserting that no marriage should be regarded as legitimate unless sanctioned by the church. Obviously this represents an acknowledgment that people were commonly getting married without any input from the church.
Marriage is a contract. Whereas some people claim that it is primarily a religious institution that has been secularized, it is actually a secular and legal tradition that religion has tried to lay claim to. Don't give them that credibility. Here in the US, you can get married by a justice of the peace, without any input from the church whatsoever. If priests don't like it, let THEM stop calling THEIR supernatural mumbo-jumbo a "marriage," they can have "spiritual unions" or whatever they want to say.Another approach could have been a demand that the government not recognize the religious institution of marriage under "Separation of Church and State", but instead regard it as a de-facto Civil Union with all the rights and protections associated therein.
Ideally, this is what would happen. In practical terms, this would take way, waaaaaaaay longer than just getting gay relationships recognized as marriages, because one would have to change the basic terminology regarding family law in every state (as opposed to simply issuing marriage certificates to same-sex couples). Not only that, but it wouldn't get the religious right on board. Instead they would mount an attack on gay rights groups, claiming that we are trying to get rid of marriage entirely (it doesn't matter whether this objection makes any sense, they would object anyway, and lots of people who are comfortable with the status quo would agree).
While it's a tempting solution, politically, almost no one is interested in it, and there's no reason why doing this would be any faster than arguing directly for marriage equality now.Plus, what Kazim said. I'd be fine with getting government out of marriage, but that's because I see marriage as something declared by the couple and hopefully recognized by society, not as something conferred by an authority (the law somewhat agrees; that's what common law marriages are). Marriage is emphatically not a religious invention; we have been a pair-bonding species for hundreds of thousands of years.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of family values, families everywhere are being destroyed because of gays getting married and eating da poo poo on their wedding night. I have a friend who's 8 year old boy accidentally watched Brokeback Mountain and he now has to take a course of homeopathic heterosexual pills to prevent him catching the gay.
True Story
Won't this madness ever end? Won't someone please think of the children?@Kharma
You can't just assert that religion invented marriage. It seems likely to me that people were engaging in relationship commitments before organized religion sprung up. I find it likely that the idea to stand in front of everyone and declare it probably predates organized religion too. If you want to say that religion invented all this stuff you kind of have to back it up.
Regardless of that, the fact is that the common use term for people throwing it all in together and living as a family unit is "marriage." To suggest that we should rename everything so that gay people can have a recognized relationship is insulting. It suggests that the term marriage needs to be protected from gay people. Which in turn, suggests that they are in some way not as good as straight people.
Nobody is talking about protecting religious marriage from straight atheists because their marriage is obviously a secular one. Sure, for a long time religion was the authority that approved of peoples relationships, but that just isn't the case any more. Now, in this country the authority that recognizes relationships in any meaningful way is our secular government. That right, should be extended to everyone equally, regardless of race, sex, orientation, etc.I wouldn't go as far as to call them stupid, simply unused to having their supernatural beliefs and doctrine questioned and unused to having to reason out and think through their arguments.
They've spent their lives discussing the topics with either people who agree, or people who are unprepared for the discussion. So they don't realise that there are problems with the evidence and logic of the things they think are true.
Matt D., for example, would likely have made similar argument a decade or so ago.Yeah I guess "stupid" is a little insulting, but when I say it in this particular circumstance, I mean unintentional stupidity. People are going to be stupid at certain areas in life. Just like I am stupid in certain areas. So when I say he is stupid/idiot, I'm not personally calling him that, I'm just saying that he is stupid when it comes to this particular argument.
ReplyDeleteWith the concept of "marriage" I've always had the issue that its a concept that it is historically a religious institution that has shifted into a secular contract.
Like Kazim said above, this is totally wrong. This is the exact opposite of what really happened. It was a secular institution, used for establishing bonds between families (not individuals, although they were the ones who took the marriage vows) and was later hijacked by religion.
Don't know if you're all aware of it, but in the Netherlands, if you get married in church, you're not married. The church ceremony is nothing more than just a ceremony, it's not valid and not recognized under Dutch law. You have to have the civil ceremony, that's the only thing that counts. A lot of couples go to City Hall first and then have the ceremony in church after (because they're religious or because it's traditional) but the two things are totally unconnected. I like that. Ought to be like that everywhere. :-)
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While you should use common sense and avoid overexposure to toxic substances when you are pregnant, it is important to keep this information in perspective. Therefore, you should be cautious—not paranoid—when you are using potentially toxic substances around the house.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- In their quest for the next big drug discovery, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly teaming up with some of the nation's top universities, recruiting campus scientists as partners and offering schools multimillion-dollar deals to work on experimental drugs in development.
Big Pharma has long sought to profit from academia's innovations in more limited arrangements. Now the two sides are often joining forces as equals. But the drug makers' aggressive pursuit of university research has drawn the ire of academic purists who question whether the partnerships put profits ahead of, or on equal footing with, science for science's sake.
"What it does is to blur the boundaries between academic medical centers and investor-owned companies," said Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry's new coziness with major campuses.
Pfizer Inc., Astra Zeneca PLC and Eli Lilly and Co. are among the major international drug companies signing agreements with schools such as New York University, Harvard and the University of California at San Francisco.
Driving the change is the expiration of patents for such lucrative name-brand drugs as Seroquel, Lipitor and Protonix, which industry observers say accounted for nearly $36 billion in U.S. sales in 2011 and 2012. More than ever, drug makers need new revenue to replace diminished profits from drugs that now have generic rivals.
"There's a real need on Big Pharma to be innovative in how it fills its pipeline," said Van Ellis, a Washington-based life-sciences lawyer and partner with the Morrison & Foerster firm. "And academia is incredibly concerned with how to support research."
A 2011 research report by the Biotechnology Industry Organization found that just 1 in 10 prospective drugs in clinical trials from late 2003 through 2010 ultimately received approval from the federal Food and Drug Administration, a testament to the low success rates of drugs still in the experimental phase. Previous reports showed an approval rate of 1 in 5 or 1 in 6.
One of the earliest campus collaborations was announced in 2010 between Washington University in St. Louis and Pfizer, which signed a five-year, $22.5 million deal to identify new uses for hundreds of drug compounds for which research had stalled during or on the verge of clinical trials.
At the time, Dr. Larry Shapiro, dean of the university's medical school, expressed his hope that the project would yield "many discoveries."
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A Washington University spokeswoman referred questions about that decision to the drug maker, which said in a statement the decision was a joint one that "evolved to reflect the mutual needs and strengths of both organizations."
Pfizer, based in New York, is continuing to fund its five initial research projects with the university, but has higher hopes for its five-year, $85 million partnership with the University of California at San Francisco, where two dozen Pfizer scientists are practically working side-by-side with their university counterparts in a 20,000-square-foot building on the school's sprawling Mission Bay campus.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jeffrey Bluestone, whose own research has focused on the body's immune response at the molecular level, said the university's Center for Therapeutic Innovation creates an open network of researchers that goes beyond the narrow focus on specific projects initially cultivated in campus labs on behalf of drug manufacturers.
"There was an opportunity to try to think differently about the relationship between industry and academia," he said. "Typically, industry partnerships had been at arms-length, and often at great distances, where you would try to fit a (university) research project in with your (full-time) job you had with the company."
The new collaborations allow scientists to spend more time on research and less on paperwork, Bluestone added.
"With the idea that we do this together, we don't have to worry about intellectual property and tech transfer and all that really early on," he said. "We can build in milestones and timelines that allow us to really make decisions along the way. ... It's really a different model."
Those arguments don't mollify Angell, who is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School's Division of Medical Ethics.
Academic medical centers and teaching hospitals "have particular missions that justify their tax-exempt status," Angell said. "They're supposed to educate the next generation of doctors. They're supposed to be doing cutting-edge research, not just research on drugs ... and they're supposed to be taking care of the sickest and neediest people in society."
That public-service mission is "quite different from the mission of investor-owned companies. They're supposed to maximize profits."
In addition to its efforts in St. Louis and San Francisco, Pfizer has entered into similar research partnerships with the University of California at San Diego, Boston University, Harvard, Tufts, the University of Massachusetts and seven academic medical centers in New York City.
Neither Pfizer's competitors nor the university partners are standing idle.
Harvard also has a research deal with French manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis and Belgian drug maker UCB. The Yale School of Medicine has a multiyear cancer research collaboration with Gilead Sciences Inc., a California company that sells HIV treatments such as Atripla and Truvada. And the University of Pennsylvania has an umbrella agreement with Astra Zeneca PLC, whose U.S. headquarters are just down the road in Delaware.
Bluestone, a former Pfizer advisory board member, is aware of both the promise and the pitfalls of these partnerships. He called the truncated St. Louis effort "a great project" that fell victim to a shift in corporate priorities after Pfizer's 2009 purchase of rival Wyeth for $68 billion.
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Our nearby pay per click experts will set up a campaign strategy and research keywords to do with your niche and the audience you are trying to target. People often search for 'online marketing consultants near me' and we can offer our help in many different niches. These PPC management services can be tailor made for each of our local clients to ensure the best and most effective results. We will create professionally designed text ads which grab attention and let searchers know about your unique selling points and any discounts or offers you have available. Having an eye catching advert to attract potential new customers is often extremely effective in improving click-through rates and conversion. For more information on the costs for these search engine advertising services, please fill in the contact form on this page.
We have worked with companies who have seen a 700% ROI from PPC management campaigns as a result of more traffic being brought to their website. Our local PPC team carry out extensive keyword research to provide the most effective campaign to our clients. By consulting with you to see what your main keywords are, we can put together a strategy which gives you the best lead generation.
When creating a pay per click advertising campaign, our PPC specialists in Banbridge can develop a strategy which sticks to the budget you want to spend. For example you could choose to spend £10 a day on the campaign, and once you've had enough clicks and the cost per click (CPC) totals £10, your ad won't be displayed anymore. This allows you to keep full control over what you spend, as well as letting you be flexible if you decide to increase or decrease your budget.
This type of strategy can help you to get more clients and create an impressive return on investment which will then grow your business even further. Internet advertising is becoming extremely important, and these sorts of online adverts can have a big impact. In many cases, if someone is looking to buy something they will turn to the internet to search for it. By having your brand displayed in the top Google position through a PPC ad, you can attract more clients to visit your site and buy your products.
With any SEO and marketing strategy, it's important to measure how well the campaign is running. The services our PPC specialists offer include running regular monitoring and analysis to check performance and conversions as a result of the search engine advertising. This will assess whether or not you are getting a good return on investment and let us know how we can make improvements to give the best possible results. The power of advertising through pay per click experts can be huge as it puts your site in front of searchers within your target audience who are looking for your services. We offer bespoke packages which allow you to keep full control over the costs to make sure the campaign suits you and gets the effect you want.
We can offer some of the best pay per click management services within your surrounding area in Banbridge for any companies looking to increase their website traffic. The strategies can be completely customised so that they don't exceed your chosen budget, and you can stop the campaign whenever you like. This means we can try out a few different options to see which ones work best for you without having to spend a large amount of money on something which might not be right. Our expert consultants can continually test and alter the ads until we find ones which bring you the most traffic and conversions at the closest price to your budget.
To speak to one of our pay per click experts about costs for this service today, please fill in the quick form shown on this page. These strategies can help you get more clients by bringing extra traffic and leads to your website. Our skilled team have worked with many different nearby businesses to come up with the ideal campaign, and we can do this for you to. Just get in touch to discuss costs for PPC management in Banbridge BT35 6 and we'll come back to you with some more information.
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