Cannibalism during Russian famine

Cannibalism during Russian famine, Samara province, Volga region, Russia, 1921

As with other large-scale famines, the range of estimates is considerable. An official Soviet publication of the early 1920s concluded that about five million deaths occurred in 1921 from famine and related disease: this number is usually quoted in textbooks. More conservative figures counted not more than a million, while another assessment, based on the ARA's medical division, spoke of two million. On the other side of the scale, some witnesses spoke of ten million lives. According to Betrand M. Patenaude, "such a number hardly seems extravagant after the many tens of millions of victims of war, famine, and terror in the twentieth century.

• "Mastering Twentieth-Century Russian History", Norman Lowe
• "The Big Show in Bololand. The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921", Betrand M. Patenaude.

Primate soggetto a vivisezione

Primate soggetto a vivisezione, Università Ebraica di Gerusalemme

Cosa dice quel passo [della Bibbia]? «Il giusto ha pietà del proprio bestiame». – «Ha pietà»! – Che razza di espressione! Si ha pietà di un peccatore, di un malfattore, ma non di un innocente animale. […] «Aver pietà»! Non già pietà, ma giustizia si deve all’animale.

Arthur Schopenhauer, “Della religione”, Parerga e Paralipomena