Industrial breeding would certainly not tolerate this degree of inbreeding depression.

"Since we began in 1992," the group's Web site says, "we have been very successful in preventing the growth of intensive industrial breeding."

"One sent me to the Animal Party," she said, laughing and naming a small party that opposes inhumane industrial breeding and slaughter of animals.

Marianne Thieme, the leader of the Party for Animals, has campaigned to curb experiments and inhumane large-scale industrial breeding and slaughter.

They preferred industrial breeding rather than harmonious breeding which allows the animal to stay in its natural surroundings and which, for example, allows ruminants to be bred using vegetables rather than meat meal made from recycling animal carcasses.

Despite his assurances to the contrary, Sunstein has spoken stridently in favor of allowing people the right to bring suit on behalf of animals in animal cruelty cases and to restrict what he calls the more horrific practices associated with industrial breeding and processing of animals for food.