Word: speciesism
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On the flipside, the intellectual’s status as an endangered species is also caused by a sort of leisure class mania. In this atmosphere of intense competition, the college admissions game has been transformed into an industry. Students are sent off to preparatory programs, and their parents drop...
People will fall in love, on a TV or movie screen, with a creature they would gladly kill were they to find it in their kitchen. So audiences have cheered on Rodentia from Mickey to the aspiring chef of Ratatouille. So, too, with the social, saucer-eyed, erect-standing mongoose...
Anthropomorphism isn't, after all, just for laypeople. Primatologist Jane Goodall broke with convention and gave her chimps names quite deliberately. "I don't think people would have been as interested if [chimp] David Graybeard had been No. 29," she told USA Today. Sentiment is not a bad trait in...
In the global conversation these days, there's one constant, no matter where you are - concern over the state of the planet. Whether it's climate change, pollution, habitat depletion, a lack of clean water or the loss of precious species, people everywhere worry about where we are going and...
Fewer than 20 breeding pairs of hen harriers, a legally protected bird of prey, are left in England. Hen harriers are one of two birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' "red list" - a designation reserved for species facing the greatest peril. Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth...