My two issues of the day were
Animal Liberation was on the abuse of animals, I took the following stance:
Economist Jacob Persian has an alternative. "You don't need to take away the people's right to choose. You just need to build the costs of animal suffering into the price. A tax on meat-eating, in proportion to the amount of cruelty involved, would do the trick. Plus think of the benefit for the national coffers! Of course, poor people wouldn't be able to afford meat, but that's just more incentive for them to get jobs."
Cash for Colons was on the sale of organs instead of Donation. I took the following stance:
"We remain critically short of blood plasma and various organs," says IRNA One hospital administrator Al Utopia. "Especially hearts. A good heart is hard to find. But if we were allowed to pay for donations, we'd get more of them and could save more lives. Plus the donor takes home a few hundred Iranian Rials in compensation. Unless it's a post-mortem donation, of course. In that case we'd pay the family."
- Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again [unaddressed]
- Cash for Colons? [unaddressed]
Animal Liberation was on the abuse of animals, I took the following stance:
Economist Jacob Persian has an alternative. "You don't need to take away the people's right to choose. You just need to build the costs of animal suffering into the price. A tax on meat-eating, in proportion to the amount of cruelty involved, would do the trick. Plus think of the benefit for the national coffers! Of course, poor people wouldn't be able to afford meat, but that's just more incentive for them to get jobs."
Cash for Colons was on the sale of organs instead of Donation. I took the following stance:
"We remain critically short of blood plasma and various organs," says IRNA One hospital administrator Al Utopia. "Especially hearts. A good heart is hard to find. But if we were allowed to pay for donations, we'd get more of them and could save more lives. Plus the donor takes home a few hundred Iranian Rials in compensation. Unless it's a post-mortem donation, of course. In that case we'd pay the family."