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Darwin’s dodgy diet
PETER FROST looks at the many curious animals that Charles Darwin didn’t just study but also cooked and ate — and the modern practice of scientists eating their research subjects
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A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
MY RAMBLINGS a week or so ago brought some comments from regular readers. Was I really accusing their hero — and mine — Charles Darwin of eating rare and threatened animals like the giant Galapagos tortoise?
He did of course, and he wasn’t the only one. There are many scientists who eat the plants and animals they study.
Darwin, during the voyage of the Beagle, ate not only giant tortoises but also puma. He said they tasted remarkably like veal. He also dined on iguanas, armadillos and who knows what other curious beasts.
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