As physicians concerned with maintaining humane medical standards, we know that it is critically important to learn all we can about the psychological and historical conditions conducive to medical evil.
Here the objection is that, as well as offering a radically inhuman vision of evolution, these cosmic fantasies divert us from the need to find ways of maintaining a humane existence here on Earth.
Mice were maintained under humane conditions according to National Institutes of Health guidelines (Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources 1996) as overseen by the All University Committee on Animal Use and Care at Michigan State University.
To maintain animals according to humane principles, death was not used as a primary end point.
The S.P.C.A. took the bird away, maintaining in a humane but unscientific way that keeping the rooster alive "constitutes cruelty".
The protesters maintained that more humane techniques, including sterilization and a process called immunological contraception, were available to reduce deer populations.
In Boston, the m.c.s Mr. Lif and Akrobatik (Jeffrey Haynes and Jared Bridgeman) have maintained the thoughtful, humane, uncompromising personas that first got them noticed, in the early two-thousands.
The admirable servant Jacques, who sees through yet loyally serves and protects his bonehead of a master and who establishes and maintains his own humane values, following his heart as well as his head in a world given over to cruelty and chance, is the model new man of the Enlightenment.
The sheep are handled daily, checked annually for infectious diseases, and otherwise maintained in a humane manner but consistent with sound farm-production practices.
"ICE's family residential centers are used as an effective and humane alternative to maintain family unity as families go through immigration proceedings or return to their home countries," the statement says.
