nature
Dagobah Resident
Most of cats don't eat the mouse after playing with it. It plays with it, in the same way it plays with another moving object. When cats eat the mouse, it's in the same way it would eat whatever meat.Perhaps that is why the cats like to play with mice before they eat them? Perhaps that game creates some kind of beneficial substances in mouse body? So the cat gets the benefits without suffering herself?
Saying that it's because of so-called appetizing substances (it reminds about the adrenochrome stuff) is an hypothesis only, which questions about the scientist's methods. To believe that making the animal suffer in order to extract an appetizing flesh for humans is STS extremism. This is unacceptable for humans , unless you are a satanist (cf their rituals). We are humans, there are things we must not accept, whatever "benefits" are claimed, there are lines we must not cross.
That Cs' quote is not about making another being suffer. It's about oneself searching for solutions to get out of a difficulty, when you're in a suffering situation.
The first paper is about anti-inflammation substances produced by the intestine cells, in order to protect the instestine from pro-inflammatory products. The second one is about the synthesis of a neurosteroid that has an analgesic/ antihyperalgesic effects in acute and persistent pain. Studies like that are usual and frequent in publications since many decades. It's the way pharma markets and sells various antlagic (anti-pain) medicaments. It's not about the acceptance of suffering, caused by someone else or performed on someone. It's about searching for solutions to overcome it, here in these papers, to find antalgics. Suffering is an unvoluntary thing (unless one is a masochist), coming from external involuntary factors (cold, bone fracture, ilness, wars, etc)It seems that it's true that a lot of interesting neuro-chemicals are produced when we suffer, either through pain, stress, sleep deprivation or other ways. Now, you cannot expect to get benefits just from suffering alone, otherwise people would gladly welcome their suffering. You do need a little bit of knowledge about it to potentially reap the benefits. I think that these two articles are particularly interesting on that subject:
Cold stress on plants are provoked here by natural variations, not purposely caused.Even the Charles Schnabel was harvesting his wheatgrass at 4 AM, possibly during the cold stress that plants were experiencing.
Or other factors. Scientists sometimes miss other possible hypothesis. If you look at the big picture in science and medicine, you'll see lots of prejudice and misleading conclusions. Meanstream scientific mand medical papers are, alas, full of that. Most of papers conclude with the words "possibly ", "potentialy", because authors feel (sometimes unconsciuosly) that they miss something. You must take with a grain of salt what you read in this literrature.That could possibly also explain the variations of cabbage healing effects from the same land parcel that Garnett Cheney talked about. Perhaps the variations in air temperature during the harvesting made the difference?