I WISH I REMEMBERED WHERE (WHAT MAGAZINE) I read this in. probably readers digest, but, could have been time or newsweek. Been a number of years ago now. -----Original Message----- From: BG Greer, PhD [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 3:23 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: peter singer again In a message dated 9/20/02 10:24:07 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: >I was reading about a study on alcoholism using pigs. They have a social >pecking order in the herds or whatever they call a group of pigs. If the >lead pig was given alcohol until he became "alcoholic", then he would >actually lose his status among the other pigs. It was INTERESTING. In all my supposed "knowledge", I did not know this. In Galveston, they have generations of tetotaling white and alcoholics white rats from studying a chemical called THIQ which is supposedly only found in brains of alcoholics. Bobby