Apparently some forms of discrimination are OK. A man who sued claiming that Ladies' Nights at bars are discriminatory lost his lawsuit.
News Clips: September 2008 Archives
PETA wants Ben & Jerry's to use human milk instead of cow's milk in their ice cream. "PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health." No word on the deleterious effect it would have on dairy humans and their babies on factory farms.
Even if we ignore for the moment the revulsion factor in drinking some strange woman's breast milk, there are practical matters that make this infeasible. First, all the donor women would have to be restricted from using any sort of drugs or anything that could cause untoward effects on the milk. Second, there is the whole thorny problem of diet. Unless you force all the women to eat grain like we do cows, you are going to get undesirable inconsistencies in the milk. Third, the same factors that make milking cows, it seems to me, would come into play with women, that is, degradation and all the forces of mass-production.
This is just another example that when you start treating animals like humans, you start treating humans like animals.
Fr. Damien, who ministered at a Hawaiian leprosy colony, is in the final stages of his canonization and the patients and workers there are contemplating the implications for their quiet community.
Averring that he had been misunderstood and his aim distorted, a Catholic priest who had planned on taking votes on nuns based on profiles on his website has canceled the competition. The idea had been to raise awareness of vocations and demonstrate that religious sisters are not all old and dour. A noble goal, but perhaps a naive way to achieve it.
