Just as the cruelty inflicted on working horses, so movingly depicted in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, was eventually eliminated by the efficiency of the internal combustion engine, so the vastly greater quantity of suffering that is inflicted on tens of billions of animals in today's factory farms could be eliminated by a more efficient way of producing meat.
Mr Bush's henchmen will use such pronouncements to paint Mr Dean as ambivalent about national security.At the same time, Mr Dean has hammered a wedge into his party's long-standing ideological division by accusing Bill Clinton of not doing enough to stand up to Republicans, saying he had tried "simply to limit the damage they inflict on working families".
The NUM president then went on to urge all his members and the whole trade union movement "to come here in their thousands in order that we can make aware to everybody that we're not prepared to see this kind of brutality inflicted against working men and women".
"While Bill Clinton said that the era of big government is over, I think we have to enter a new era for the Democratic Party, not one where we join Republicans and aim simply to limit the damage they inflict on working families".
Making explicit reference to Bill Clinton's politically groundbreaking declaration in 1996 that the "era of big government is over," Dr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, called for a new era for Democrats -- "not one where we join Republicans and aim simply to limit the damage they inflict on working families".
Being an election year, they will grandstand more than usual about the harm high-interest rates inflict on working families and try to jaw-bone Bernanke into ending the Fed's 19-month tightening campaign.
Scenes are set in jobcentres and in characters' homes addressing some of what Neville calls the "everyday absurdity" of what occurs, such as when people with disabilities and fluctuating health conditions are wrongly declared "fit for work" inflicting additional suffering in the process.
What's more, women's domestic subjugation to husbands is matched in public life by the menace of sexual abuse at work, inflicted with impunity by male supervisors.
What has changed for me is the degree of compromise I am willing to inflict on my work in order to see it in print.
(Mr. Horowitz mentions two cuts; as many as 18, large and small, used to be inflicted on the work regularly, Rachmaninoff being criticized all the while for the incoherence of his large structures, a charge not heard much anymore).
