Animal Person
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Next year's Mind and Life Conference is called "Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems: A Dialogue Between Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences." But can we really imagine an economic system that delivers prosperity and welfare, or is competition an unavoidable consequence of the human race?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
I know humans as a whole are a powerful species, but really, we do not have that much control over hummingbird migration ( Trumpeter Swans , maybe, but not hummingbirds). Let’s just start this post with the answer someone googling this info will need: You do not need to take your hummingbird feeder in on Labor Day.
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Animal Person
APRIL 2, 2009
Pounds ) A pet store in Connecticut received a shipment of products last week. Products, meaning rabbits. The rabbits were produced, of course, by a rabbit mill that supplies "pet" stores with live creatures whom humans will purchase without having any idea of the conditions they were produced under. Sentient nonhumans for sale.
Animal Person
MAY 24, 2009
I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
And if it's not, and sometimes I feel it isn't, at least I am able to return to productivity, and even visit Deb's tribute without completely breaking down. Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. This coevolution isn't a mere side-by-side existence.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Image source.
Animal Person
AUGUST 3, 2009
However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. We give them human names and provide them with the same amenities we enjoy as humans.
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