Farghadani fell foul of the Iranian authorities after meeting with the families of political prisoners and drawing a cartoon depicting a group of Iranian parliamentarians with faces of animals.
Greens grown on soil in good heart, salad leaves produced without the aid of chemical sprays, animals that have lived a good life and eaten good food.
It seems obvious that the happiness of our citizens is what ultimately matters (though if you believe that the rights of non-human animals are just as important then I might be sympathetic to such a caveat).
It ran through their properties and, they claim, caused serious damage to their land, crops and animals.
Though devastating for the dinosaurs, the asteroid strike cleared the way for other animals to gain ground and thrive on the planet.
But was it cruel to deck animals out in jewellery?
Compassion for animals in laboratories is not "sentimentality"; it goes hand-in-hand with compassion for humans, both of which would be served by leaving cruel and demonstrably unnecessary monkey experiments behind in favour of truly humane and human-relevant science.
To quote just one: "So here is a specific and valuable advance in knowledge that could only have been attained by experimentation on animals that closely resemble us; experiments which are, as far as we can tell, almost painless".
Cruz starts to laugh, and explains how she once told DiConcetto about a dream she had in which the pair of them were on safari, surrounded by wild animals.
Unfortunately, humans are the only animals who step on the same stone twice.
There are not many tourists, so you find yourself alone, with a great sense of peace and humility, looking at the paintings showing animals drinking at the river – and then look to the same spot below, where the water used to run.
