Man and Animals
Humans Are Stripping The Earth Bare Through Overconsumption
Monday, March 30th, 2009Human beings and modern civilization are plundering nature at a rate never seen before. If current trends were to go on, we will need the natural resources provided by two Earths by the year 2050. And that’s assuming we have not exhausted Earth’s resources by then. This and other details were revealed by a report [...]
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Is Modern Civilization Crumbling?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Modern civilization as we know it is extravagant and woefully wasteful. Most people in the developed world are not dying because of lack of food; we are dying from being stuffed full of junk foods.
We spend and waste Mother Earth’s resources at an alarming rate. We not only plunder the environment, we treat animals, our [...]
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The Road Less Travelled; Making a Difference
Friday, December 26th, 2008Are you a vegetarian for health, environmental and / or humanitarian reasons?
Do you believe and / or fight for the rights of animals, our fellow owners and heirs of planet Earth?
Do you shun the consumerism which is enveloping so many developed and developing countries?
Do you believe in a power far greater than anything we can [...]
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The Story of ‘Monkey See, Monkey Do’
Monday, December 22nd, 2008I once came across this story about monkeys. Well, I cannot remember exactly if it was monkeys, chimpanzees, gorillas, or what, so I’ll just stick to monkeys for simplicity’s sake.
This is apparently a true story of a research project which was carried out by scientists. I cannot recall the exact details, but will reproduce it [...]
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The Conditioned Elephant
Monday, December 22nd, 2008It is said that when an elephant is “domesticated” or raised in the zoo, a rope is used to limit the area which it is allowed to roam, with one end of the rope being tied to one of its legs, and the other end being tied to a pole.
The little elephant will then be restricted to [...]
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Are Zoos Cruel?
Sunday, December 21st, 2008Are zoos cruel?
When I visit the zoo and see animals holed up in enclosures, cages or tanks, with little room to maneuver and no need to fight for survival or find their own food, one thing goes through my mind – the lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, otters, etc, do not have the chance to fulfill [...]
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