Critter News
AUGUST 6, 2009
Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. Whenever I read about dolphins in places like Sea World, I think of an ex-co-worker named Gretchen who admitted she had "issues" with animals. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Herzog states, “The awkward fact is that most wanton animal cruelty is not perpetrated by inherently bad kids but by normal children who will eventually grow up to be good citizens” (34). . The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue).
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10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2016
The Dolphin Mall to be precise, where ponds in front of the mall are the best spot around to see Gray-headed Swamphens , yet another introduced species that has proliferated to the point where they are countable in Florida. How convenient! Darned bankers… Our next stop was also designed to annoy me.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2008
John Rodman , "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 [spring 1974]: 13-26, at 20 [footnotes omitted]) Note from KBJ: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that life in the state of nature is (or would be) "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
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