We are talking about animals that have a brain that has 0.1 milligrams in weight, so ants are rather stupid animals if you put it that way.
When are we going to recognize that no matter how strong we are, others (our peers, we are after all social animals) can do damage and there most certainly is a formula for assessing that damages and forcing people to pay.
When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits-not animals.
In some cases, we take animals who are healthy and we make them sick so we can study them, and that, obviously, is a lot more ethically complicated.
We are familiar with the wide range of animals and plants that share our planet but are less familiar with the vital role biodiversity plays in maintaining our mutual life support system, and in both the physical and mental aspects of our well-being.
"Krishna protected cows as sacred animals and we are delighted to celebrate the cow at this year's festival, " said President of the Temple, Srutidharma Das.
"By protecting those animals that we are the most attracted to, we are also influencing and supporting the survival of other species, as well protecting entire landscapes, " she explained.
"We are in the business of removing dead animals from dairies in the Central Valley, " he said.
"We love them, they are our favorite animals, " said Shenal Kaya, a young man who sold fishing tackle by the waterside.
Mr. WRANGHAM: Well, I mean, the odd thing is that for years, we've assumed that because humans are animals, and animals are designed to eat raw food, humans are designed to eat raw food, too.
We are, after all, civilised wild animals, and when under threat from a predator it is important that all our body functions are tuned to perfection to either fight our corner, or get the hell out of there.
So maybe voice isn't something that's reliable at all to these animals and one thing we are trying to find out at the moment is whether they actually do recognize voices by using original recordings that are not signature whistles to see whether the animals can recognize those as well.
"We are so careful in taking care of the animals because if we don't, they don't give us their secrets, " said Full.
This is still a very young technique, it has great potential and it is very important that as well as studying the animals that are there already we continue with the process of trying to improve and use the technology.
Or will we find the same evolutionary pattern in animals who are very different from us?
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"The animals here are all here because we're helping them survive as a species, " Mr. Lukas said, referring to the plantation's extensive breeding and animal-rehabilitation programs.
Deep in a remote region of Cameroon, we are following two hunters looking for bush meat -- forest animals they can kill to feed their families.
"The idea that you can produce the products that we produce -- that are a delicacy -- by mistreating animals is just completely, it's inconceivable, " Henley says.
"The first thing we are going to do is waive the fee for disposing of dead animals and then we need to wait a few weeks until we get a full picture about the disaster which has struck us, " he continued.
It's this interest in meat where it comes from how the animals are treated before they become meat, whether or not we, as human beings, should be eating meat at all, what meat suggests about our own mortality, about - the ethical questions we all or many of us struggle with.
Patterns of species diversity are biased: they are based on the species we know about, which tend to be large, visible animals like butterflies, birds and mammals.
Kenner has many outrageous things to tell us about industrial food, but the picture is perhaps most upsetting when we get a glimpse (largely from footage shot surreptitiously by workers) of the way animals are now raised.
If we wish to maintain the views that no conscious human beings, including those with profound, permanent intellectual disabilities, can be used in ways harmful to them solely as a means to another's end, then we are going to have to extend the boundaries of this principle beyond our own species to other animals who are conscious and able to be harmed.
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