Battery cage

So the usual m ove is to find some other difference which is thought to significantly distinguish humans from animals. The most frequently cited and promising candidate: rationality or the sense of onese lf as a continu ing bein g. Hum ans, it is said , can rea son an d think; an imals (it is presumed) canno t. Moreover, this ability to reason becomes reflected in the human's ability to see herself as a continuing creature as a being which has a past and will have a future. Let us grant for a…

your face." (Dave Barry) * "You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage." (Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold and Maude, 1971) * "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." (Laurence J. Peter) * "Finally, Hillary swept in and moved down a line of huggers toward…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…