10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
The bird guides have not worked for over a year now, and of course being a young industry, most of the bird guides had invested in other alternative businesses. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe.
Critter News
JULY 21, 2009
But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.". Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. The stupid project is in partnership with a French pharmaceutical company. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it.
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Critter News
JUNE 3, 2009
Viral DNA was used to introduce a gene for a green fluorescent protein into monkeys, creating a new line of "glow-in-the-dark" transgenic primates for drug research work. You can argue that anything is good for humanity in the short run, until it gets into the wrong hands in the long run. The ethical questions are obvious.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2012
I was pretty sure it was fake from the get-go, because who brings their baby to a golf course in Montreal to bait eagles? Joking aside, the instant viral popularity of this video seems to me to be speaking to some deep-rooted fears in the human psyche. Everyone knows you bait eagles with babies in Alpine meadows, DUH.
Animal Person
APRIL 14, 2009
There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food. 1208724109.
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