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Are Pigs Really Like People?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 11, 2015 
We hear this all the time. Pig physiology is like people physiology. Pigs and humans have the same immune system, same digestive system, get the same diseases. Pigs are smart like people are smart. Pigs are smarter than dogs. And so on. Ask a faunal expert in archaeology or a human paleoanatomist: Pig teeth are…
Many Duluth Zoo Animals Dead In Floods
Posted by Greg Laden on June 20, 2012 
Duluth, a second tier Minnesota city on Lake Superior, has been flooding. This is a little unusual; heavy rains following a period of saturation have caused a local river that is usually not even heard of to grow very large and cause flooding that a lot of people haven’t seen before. The polar bear and…
Tradition!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2011 Tradition. Not just a song from Fiddler on the Roof. You know the refrain: “The Papa, the Papa! Tradition.” It’s a great play but it is firmly rooted in the patriarchy, as “tradition” often is. There are many ways to define “tradition” and we can look it up somewhere and have a flameware over dictionary…
Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part III)
Posted by Greg Laden on March 26, 2010 …. Continued …. So, what rights to what animals get? When Charlton Heston’s character in Planet of the Apes came across that great edifice of Western Civilization and realized that the old Orangutan was right … humans are fundamentally destructive of themselves and their near relatives … he replicated in the fictional future what Louis…
Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part II)
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2010 Continued from Part 1 …
Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part I)
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2010 What rights should be afforded non-human animals, to which animals, under what circumstances, and why? What are the criteria for such decisions? What should those who disagree with the status quo do?