God-schmod, I want my Monkey Man!

Леон Касс, председатель Президентского Совета по Биоэтике, является автором следующего пассажа:

Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone - a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive.

I fear I may by this remark lose the sympathy of many reader, people who will condescendingly regard as quaint or even priggish the view that eating in the street is for dogs. ( ... )

But eating on the street - even when undertaken, say, because one is between appointments and has no other time to eat - displays in fact precisely such lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. Hunger must be sated now; it cannot wait. Though the walking street eater still moves in the direction of his vision, he shows himself as a being led by his appetites. Lacking utensils for cutting and lifting to mouth, he will often be seen using his teeth for tearing off chewable portions, just like any animal. Eating on the run does not even allow the human way of enjoying one's food, for it is more like simple fueling; it is hard to savor or even to know what one is eating when the main point is to hurriedly fill the belly, now running on empty. This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if WE feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior.

(Kass, Leon: The Hungry Soul, pp. 148-149, University of Chicago Press, 1994, 1999)

Общественность в экстазе. И этот человек хочет запретить нам ковыряться в носу исследования по стволовым клеткам?