"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...502933,00.html




Anthropomorphisization. (sp?) The application of human
characteristics to things which are not human. That is not to say
that pigs and chickens do not feel, but to attempt to equate the
workings of their minds to ours is, while natural and inevitable in
our species, pointless and egotistical.