From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!hocda!spanky!ka Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Re: Monarchies today Article-I.D.: spanky.235 Posted: Wed Mar 9 22:08:28 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 03:30:28 1983 References: sbcs.219 houxq.316 It's not clear that we are talking about cruelty here. I would assume from the orginal article that mealtime for the animals was delayed for a couple of hours so that the animals would be awake, rather than sleep- ing off their meals. Since animals living in the wild are not fed by the clock, I doubt that an hour or two variation in their mealtime bothers most animals. Kenneth Almquist