It is the notion of our time that non-human animals exist for the advancement of the human species. In whatever field — cookery, fashion, blood-sports — it is held that we can only be concerned with animals as far as human interests exist. There may be some sympathy for those animals, as to limit practices which cause excruciating suffering, but those may only be limited if they are brought to public light, and if legislators receive enough pressure from the public to change.
2007 Archives
2007 Archives
Rats turned into remote controlled robots
AUTHOR: Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post Staff Writer
Scientists for the first time have managed to remotely direct the movements of rats by using implanted electrodes to control their behavior — in effect transforming living animals into robots.
Bison is featured dish at Ted Turner’s new roadhouse
Billionaire media entrepreneur and rancher Ted Turner is hoping to create a new empire: a restaurant chain featuring 25 versions of the bison burger.
U.S. Court Returns MBTA Protection to Mute Swans
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 2
In a unanimous decision in U.S. Court of Appeals,District of Columbia Circuit on December 28, Migratory Bird Treaty Act protection was restored to Mute swans in America. Additionally, power to change regulatory matters was sent back to the U.S.Department of Interior.
Wildlife Conservation Society Receives $20 Million Challenge Grant
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today a $20 million challenge grant from philanthropist Robert W. Wilson to manage and protect some of the most biologically important wild areas left on earth.
Among the field sites targeted by WCS are: the Ndoki-Likouala rain forest in the Republic of Congo, the Sikhote-Alin and East Manchurian Mountain Ecosystem shared by both China and Russia, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in the U.S.
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Certainly My Heart is Defective: It Breaks Too Easily
Most other members of my species, presumably cut from the same mold, seem not to be concerned over the institutionalized killing of animals for “food.”
Yet, the mere thought of the fear and agony experienced by the “farmed” animals who are killed for no reason other than the greedy desire for the taste of their flesh breaks my heart… My heart must be defective.