{"id":111,"date":"2006-11-18T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2006-11-18T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:23:01","slug":"111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/18\/111\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re all Neanderthals and Chimpanzees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/18\/opinion\/18sat2.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">news<\/a> that there&#8217;s only a 0.5 percent difference between us and Neanderthals is irresistible to the Grumpy Vegan. Why is this <em>news<\/em>? I see Neanderthals like others see dead people.<\/p>\n<p>How does this fit with what we know about the similarities between ourselves and chimpanzees? The National Institutes of Health&#8217;s <a href=\"\nhttp:\/\/www.genome.gov\/15515096\">National Humane Genome Research Institute<\/a> states <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>chimp and human genomes are very similar and encode very similar proteins. The DNA sequence that can be directly compared between the two genomes is almost 99 percent identical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh how I wished the self-righteous Christians would shut up and keep their faith to themselves. I&#8217;m all for what&#8217;s truly Christian sentiment (e.g., charity, compassion, humility). But what seems to pass for Christianity nowadays is a self-centered, self-aggrandizement at the expense of everyone else, including animals. Their belief, which licenses their behavior, is the source of much prejudice and suffering in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t we all Neanderthals and Chimpanzees? Shouldn&#8217;t we all be treated with compassion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that there&#8217;s only a 0.5 percent difference between us and Neanderthals is irresistible to the Grumpy Vegan. Why is this news? I see Neanderthals like others see dead people. How does this fit with what we know about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/18\/111\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-interbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}