Intellectual Property Law

Food Glorious Food- for thought

Voting time means the usual circulation of emails recounting American suffragettes suffering to change a prohibition on the right to vote. Often jail and hunger strikes are mentioned. I read and send along various useful historical reminders, each calculated to revive appreciation for a right fought for by others. A real sock in the jaw- or stomach- is this book- which not only goes into detail on so-called "force feeding" of hunger strikers (later legally categorized as torture), but also recounts the calculus of human starvation ( the 1944 Minnesota Experiment : WWII conscientious objectors voluntarily participated in a being starved to prepare- scientifically- for dealing with the long starved masses of Europe). And take away tidbits, such as the fact that, except in extraordinary circumstances, the brain, retina and gonads run exclusively on glucose.

Full post as published by Idea Lawyer Blog on August 10, 2008 (boomark / email).