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The World Is Getting Better have cared whether plants suffer pain or not—people wouldn't have given it a second thought, you know.

And now, though they will have to keep on eating them until something else is invented, they will do it with a shudder and won't enjoy them near so much. The world is losing much of its cruelty and thoughtlessness. Upward! Onward! is the slogan.

Do you like my new coat? Unborn lamb skin, you know. Isn't it lovely!