‘The Imaginary Wall: How We Lost Our Kinship With Animals’
‘The Imaginary Wall: How We Lost Our Kinship With Animals’
The process of evolution that unleashed the world’s biodiversity literally has no mechanism for creating a species that is categorically distinct from all others. Darwin said it himself: there are always intermediate forms. For decades, taboos prevented science from naming the continuities between us and our animal kin for what they are. In effect, our kinship with other animals was obscured by a conspiracy of silence. Why? In part because the imaginary wall was such a huge boon for the business of building empire and industrial society. By erasing the agency, subjectivity, and individuality of the rest of the animal world, […]
In a society that allows you to be caring and empathetic towards animals, feeling nothing, or worse, feeling happy or excited at seeing an animal suffering or being killed, is the dysfunctional part. If there’s no need to view animals with indifference or contempt, why would we? It’s a sign of a healthy, functioning brain to feel empathy for sensitive, emotional animals in a world where we have no need to be harsh and indifferent. DAVID RAMMS: Life is violent, but we’re at a point where we can choose to avoid most violence. We’re among the first humans in history to […]
‘MAHA-HA-HA’ Laughing: Investigation exposes $225 million in new NIH spending for dog and cat experiments
‘MAHA-HA-HA’ Laughing: Investigation exposes $225 million in new NIH spending for dog and cat experiments
A White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation identified over $225 million in new NIH (National Institutes of Health) spending for lethal heart-harvesting experiments on dogs, force-feeding experimental drugs to beagles, breeding puppies to become blind, and more — including new discretionary funding for a Fauci-era laboratory where beagles are fed to ticks. It also identified $11.7 million in new NIH spending on invasive cat experiments: brain and eye tests on kittens, severing cats’ spinal cords and then forcing them to walk on treadmills, forcing felines to cough and hyperventilate through carbon dioxide-pumped ventilators, and electro-shocking their voice boxes. WHITE COAT WASTE: A […]
