4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. In the end, I would have to say that this trip gave me some added confidence in nature’s ability to fight back against the ravages of humanity. And this was once a wonderful patch of bird-rich understory. Now it is just… grass.

2013 159

2013 Emotional Abandon Abandoning 159

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Put simply, many people just can't handle the truth--or too much of it at once.

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom.

Meat 40

Meat Vegetarian Battery Fast Food 40