If animal welfare is a prime concern for you, it's worth noting that Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), the world's leading animal welfare organisation, "strongly supports organic as the best form of humane and sustainable agriculture".
It was a moment of extraordinary social mobility, and the war is a crucial factor in that — as well as the Labour victory in 1945, with all the elements of social welfare they brought in with them, to set up the essential form of our humane welfare state.
He is also one of the most influential authors in the widest sense, for the two epics provided the basis of Greek education and culture throughout the Classical age and formed the backbone of humane education down to the time of the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity.
Indeed, it may be argued that to resort to violence is to admit to a failure of imagination and to give up hope that more humane forms of problem solving and conflict resolution can be effective.
We would hardly regard a king who executes every law-breaker, the jaywalker no less than the murderer, as just; nor would we feel much better if, in an effort to fit the punishment to the crime, the king should reserve the more "humane" forms of execution for the jaywalker.
The Washington-based organization argues that billions of federal tax dollars could be saved if the government locked up fewer illegal immigrants with no history of committing violent acts, and let them petition for legal status while remaining free in their jobs and with their families under "humane" forms of monitoring, such as electronic ankle-bracelets.
It's neither reliable as a form of justice, nor humane for the participants".
As a history, The Missing Ink is patchy and too anecdotal for its own good, but its advocacy of one of the most humane and pleasurable forms of self-expression is pretty much irresistible.
The reality is also that west European farming is overwhelmingly dominated by large-scale, industrialized farming, heavily subsidized by the European Union, and any attempt to revert to smaller, more humane and organic forms of agriculture would amount to an expensive revolution that most farmers would resist.
It was regarded as a surer, cleaner and above all more humane method than other forms of capital punishment such as the electric chair, hanging, gas or firing squad (just abolished in Utah).
