I just saw the Yahoo News headline, "San Francisco Zoo considered a crime scene after tiger attack," and was wondering, ...'Isn't it always?'
A few hundred years ago, in this country, we allowed &even encouraged the exploitation of entire ethnicities of people, simply because of what amounted to language barriers.
As our research capabilities evolve, they are revealing amazingly advanced levels of intelligence, ingenuity, and interaction amongst many different species of animals.
So why, when we realize other animals' import in their own families & communities, do we kidnap & hold them captive, in environments only anemically resembling their native ones?
Consider how you would you like it if you were randomly trapped, taken away from everything dear & familiar to you, & put on display for the edutainment of a species, who had other means of examining our species?
'How inhumane are we willing to be, in the name of arrogance?
2007-12-26
12:30:36
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