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The people spoke and they, the jurors, are caring, kind, compassionate, and care about life. Politicians are corrupted by money. This is most like why it's so hard do figure out how to become a politician.

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So important: "By the end, all the jurors did not just sympathize with our legal argument. They sympathized with the animals, too. Indeed, when we brought them to meet Lily and Lizzie this past weekend, many were near tears." Yes, arousing love, caring, empathy are essential. That was core also in the second most popular book in the 19th century (second only to the Bible): Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, an extremely powerful anti-slavery novel.

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There is a new trend they call it KINDNESS, it is as old as the world but nobody payed attention or made fun of it. The Planet needs kindness for all living beings and wilderness if we cannot have kindness in our hearth for those around us we are not worth much, only the wallet is worth something to some of us (the butchers)

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so is it true that in a Mormon state like Utah, compassion is a crime?

I do believe that Jesus would be appalled....

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I can only hope that the politicians will not win and undo all the good that the results of the Smithfield Trial did.

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totally agree that individual empathy with abused animals is key to people coming to their defense as in the utah trial. simple argumentative logic is not sufficient. but as you often write almost everyone has had an important relation to a pet and is therefore open to some kind of empathy though the members of a corrupt utah ag committee will be quite a test.

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Severe Neglect should always be punishable by law! Huge fine and jail time. Why should they allow 100,000 pigs to be starved to death!? Who does that? Who eats starved pig? Sick. They should lose their license for that! That’s pig genocide! Why even be in the business if you can’t feed your damn pigs! Same for any other live stock animal! Hold them accountable for suffering!

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My latest gmail from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offers the view that "there's a lot of people who sit in a lot of anger, frustration, and despair, and channel it into destructive energy..." They worry and are bothered in ways that goats and shepherds cannot be. They are maybe kept awake when they ought to nap more, and tune into medieval music like you'd hear by going to gemsny. org/events/events-calendar/1324 , and listening to Concordian Dawn from Jan. 12.

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