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Why do people not understand

Reddit Animals

How smart certain animals are like gorilla Orang-Utan chimpanzee octopus crows pigs dolphins orcas etc these are all sentient animals according to recent science they should not be in zoos or anything of the sort submitted by /u/BlazingDave72x [link] [comments]

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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

Reddit Animals

I am posting this here because they had an exhibit of skinny pigs billed as “African naked mole rats.” The skinny pigs had no enclosures. This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats.

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo

Animal Person

Like a "BBQ, pony rides and a petting zoo!" When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? What would you do?

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New Podcast for Week Ending February 13, 2009

Critter News

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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J. Baird Callicott on Domesticity

Animal Ethics

From the perspective of the land ethic a herd of cattle, sheep, or pigs is as much or more a ruinous blight on the landscape as a fleet of four-wheel drive off-road vehicles. African cheetas [sic] in American and European zoos are captive, not indentured, beings. But this is not true of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens.

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J. Baird Callicott on Wild Life

Animal Ethics

The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants. as is the humane ethic.

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