God's law is for man to "Choose Life". While something like a cop who kills a serial killer who's trying to kill him, or running away to kill another day might be forgivable, killing a helpless human being no matter how evil is murder. Counting the laws and appeals involved, it's cheaper for life in prison, along with the likelihood that innocents are executed...



"It seems to me that his only crime is poverty, but he's yours and I don't want to hear any more about this."



So, it is wrong to harvest organs from condemned, again as wrong as it is to kill them. A society that thinks this is right becomes like China, where executions are performed on demand and the 'guilty' sentenced to die are increasingly done so because of profit motives for 'organ tourists'.



And, really, do you want the "Parts" of a horrible killer? Most are wretched junkies or black people that end up being 'convicted' due to poverty. And once in a while, pure evil manages to get caught alive to be executed. Want to have the BTK killer's heart? (assuming the next step will be life imprisonment cases) There's this neat movie; "Body Parts" on that subject. Really, a lot we don't know about how nerves affect the body, how much of 'us' is in our parts.

Most food animals we eat now, if we encountered them hunting we'd shoot 'em to put them out of their misery.





What's needed desperately is a system of labelling that has strict guidelines and offers a spectrum from "Factory Farm" to "True open range" with a few gradients in between. Just like is needed for "Standard Big Ag" to "Hippie Joe's Organic Garden".



A strict range of labels would provide the market niche that the latter, the extremely holistic/organic providers need. This should have strong penalties to prevent the big companies from just slapping an "organic" generic label, raising the price, but selling it at half "Hippie Joe's" minimum price and putting him out of business. If a range of labels is implemented so consumers can choose, then slowly the market will shift from "Big Ag" standard to the middle of the road with the extreme "Organic" end entering a renaissance. Big Ag will then simply shift to having grocery stores accept local produce again and importing luxury/out of season goods.

I just hope Good keeps out ads like this. I really like this magazine, not so much as a "Liberal/Leftist" source but a true intellectual/thinker's source of which so-called 'left' thought is associated with. Needing ads, I'll plug my websites (warped comics) to provide a few bucks.