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I recently received a copy of a book titled Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition packed with riveting images by renowned artist Sue Coe that also contains an essay by Northwestern University professor Stephen Eisenman called "The Capitalist Zoo," a history of zoos written from the future—a future in which zoos as we know them no longer exist. Zooicide is a powerful book that will attract a good deal of attention from both pro-zoo and anti-zoo people, along with those in the middle-of-the-road. While there are many issues that need to be considered, most people, including zoo administrators, agree that zoos as we currently know them are in need of major reform (See "Different Views on How to Make Zoos More Resident-Friendly," in which some of the papers stemming from an international meeting called Zoos and Aquariums as Welfare Centres: Ethical Dimensions and Global Commitment are published in a special issue of … [Read more...] about “Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition”

Not so. Not about serious matters, not about lies which if caught could result in the end of a relationship, employment, freedom, large sums of money or life itself. Those are what I call high stake lies; they are the lies that the police and the FBI and insecure spouses are trying to catch. They are the lies of the criminal, the terrorist, the philanderer, the embezzler, and what the cops call ‘bad guys’. … [Read more...] about The 8 Biggest Myths About Lying