Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Before you answer, here are some details to inform your decision: The first "knockout animals" were laboratory rats, whose anterior cingulate cortex have been damaged/blocked so that though they might still feel pain, they do not find it unpleasant. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. Take a project to remove rats from the Californian island of Anacapa (in the Channel Islands). Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?” ” one.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2018
Yet, in 1990s India has killed more than 99% of its Gyps vultures (e.g. Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. Oddly, I saw no rats, only a mongoose or two and a few stray dogs.
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. Americans systematically exploit and kill animals - sometimes for scientific progress; sometimes for leather jackets, ham sandwiches, or horse-racing.
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