ROSE GROSSHANS

There are no legal mandates anywhere on earth that food fish or shrimp be killed in a minimally painful way. Often, they asphyx -iate after being hauled into boats. It can take hours. Tofu is cheap. So are beans.

Nussbaum highlights three essential virtues in thinking about animals: wonder, which draws our attention to the value of animals; compassion, which alerts us to suffering; and outrage without the desire for retribution, which motivates us to improve the world.

the party’s recent appetite for bold action has shown itself most clearly in policies related to children, including banning after-school tutor -ing services (previously a boisterous market) from turning a profit, and limiting minors to only three hours of video game play per week — Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m

Rice and wheat productivity went from one (metric) tonne per hectare to four, five, even six times that. In the case of millet, we’re still talking about going from a tonne to maybe two.