10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. They will allow the human, if she behaves correctly, to be the junior partner in the hunting enterprise – nothing more. The love that Montgomery feels for the hawk and its wildness will never be reciprocated: a raptor is not a dog or a horse.
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
After all, many activists don't support the use of the same tactics they'd approve of to liberate human animals to liberate nonhuman animals. There's no good reason to lack confidence that animals who possess a brain are sentient (134). Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism.
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Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal.
Animal Person
MARCH 26, 2009
Now, mind you there are people who are actually mentally ill in the sense they 'can't get it up' without thinking of their mate as a fantasized non-human animal, I should mention this also includes mythological animals. There was hemorrhaging of the eye, and the poor dog was afraid of people for a long time after the incident.
Animal Person
AUGUST 9, 2009
When I saw the Live Science article about dogs being as smart as 2-year-old kids I knew that if there were any talk of ranking, my beloved greyhounds would be at the less-desirable end of the list (not from personal experience, but from reputation), and I also knew that there would be a whiff of speciesism. Do you think this helps dogs?
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