I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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Have you ever trailed behind a semi trailer full of chickens in cages? Just as nasty.
I am not disagreeing that it is horrific, I am only saying it is not unusual nor confined to other countries.
Agreed, Jeffrey McAnarney, but there are a lot of cultural differences we disagree with:
$0.50/hr wages for factory workers in China
Child labor in China and India
Child rape, er, I mean pre-teen marriage in Islamic countries
Wholesale rape and slaughter of people in Africa
Murder of unwanted children in China and India
Those are just cultural differences, too.
I don't belief that morality is completely relative, but I do believe that some beliefs are just beliefs, and their basis in morality is purely cultural.