Amen. It's not legal to do it to laboratory rats. That's because the rats have several lobbies to guard their rights. I guess we humans need lobbies too. We could found the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humans and People for the Ethical Treatment of People .
One of the things that gagged me the most: the passage by the 2nd Ckt Court of Appeals that basically said "legally, it doesn't matter if Terri might be conscious of her starvation."