tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36604187348600367262024-03-13T14:17:15.869-07:00Animals and Literature: G & HSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02508545601332352668noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-38088716519959495352015-06-05T16:17:00.000-07:002015-06-05T16:17:27.662-07:00AnthropomorphismThe limit to anthropomorphism confuses me. This class has taught us that we shouldn't assume animals think and behave in the same way humans do. However, in readings such as the one about elephants, we are shown that animals are able to get PTSD and the reading on animal empathy and experimentation tells us that animals can get learned helplessness and depression. These diseases are generally considered human, even if it's only because humans are the ones who found them and labelled them, so isn't saying that animals get them too anthropomorphic? Many arguments are made that animals shouldn't be tested on or abused because they have feelings too, which I completely agree with, but I also think that applying feelings to animals is a form of anthropomorphism because it is applying something that happens to humans to animals. Although I get that not everything that humans and animals have in common were human traits first, I think anthropomorphism can be used in a positive way to help us understand animals based on what we know.Selena Elkin Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019151712221040358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-59565643460820834012015-06-05T13:17:00.001-07:002015-06-05T13:17:13.568-07:00So Long & Thanks For All The Fish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few nights ago I was watch<u> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</u> with some friends and the clip above is the opening scene of the movie. Although this song and opening monologue are meant to be satirical, it brought up a lot of ideas that we discussed in section regarding "intelligence", communication, and overall human and nonhuman animal interactions. The opening monologue states that humans were the third most intelligent species on the planet (even though they thought they were the most intelligent) behind dolphins who were the second most intelligent. This was an interesting concept because it was the first time I thought about how this movie was referring to intelligence in terms of "human intelligence" and yet they were still classifying dolphins as more intelligent. Then the question of what if something like this were to actually happen popped into my head. Scientifically speaking dolphins do use more of their brains than humans do, so what if dolphins (or any other animals) knew of an impending catastrophe due to their intelligence or deeper connection with the world around us and tried to warn us but could not because of human ignorance and communication barriers that humans also neglect. This was such a new outlook on this scene that I am very happy this course enabled me to have.<br />
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Mice were #1 on the list because they're inter-dimensional scientists. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581223011280168842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-38295655083679318622015-06-04T23:24:00.002-07:002015-06-04T23:24:17.414-07:00Luxury Eating?Recently, I was watching a food program on the Travel channel. The show featured Anthony Bourdain, who is well known for going to different countries to display the culture and the food. I found it interesting that he said that begin vegan was a first world luxury, excluding those who followed religious practices of being vegan.<div>
As I thought more about it, the more it made sense. It can be very difficult in poverty stricken countries to follow vegan practices as it can be expensive to buy meat and other food products. It can sometimes be required that you have to raise your own animals to provide meat and milk, and grow your own vegetables. My parents grew up very poor in Mexico and ate what they were able to grow on their ranch. My mom always said they were lucky to at least have cows to drink milk. </div>
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People fight for the rights of animals, but sometimes eating/drinking something from them can be a means to survival. I can't even imagine a perfect world where people existed without harming animals and surviving mainly off foods grown from the Earth. It sounds impractical. The only way I could see this happening would be if we shared the wealth and technological advances (farming) with the rest of the world, but we would also have to stop prejudice and war to be able to share. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08510860837926456775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-18791971167319137402015-06-04T23:05:00.000-07:002015-06-04T23:05:05.823-07:00Aunts Who Work With Animals/MeatWhen I went home for Memorial Day weekend, a lot of my aunts were visiting from out of town. I recalled at a family gathering that two of my aunt's happen to work in the meat packing industry, and are in close proximity of the animals that are killed to eventually become the meat we eat. I decided to ask them about it and their thoughts on the entire ordeal. One of them chops off the feet of the chicken, while the other watches the pigs. They both work in different states.<br />
I shared with them what I've learned since being in this class, and how over time the human views of animals have changed greatly. However, the response I received was not what I expected. My aunts didn't seem bothered by the animals at all.<br />
It was interesting how little emotion was put into their work. I had to remember that my aunts chose to have these jobs because of the hours and the benefits. Also, that my family comes from another country where it was rare to eat meat, and when you did, it was a big (usually happy) deal.<br />
We are always blaming the people that work in these industries, but in reality we don't know their backgrounds. I wonder how much the perspective changes whether you were born here or in another country, or if your not necessarily from a stable economic background. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08510860837926456775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-24726605154386343232015-06-04T18:36:00.001-07:002015-06-04T18:36:55.673-07:00In preparation for my favorite TV show..One of my favorite television shows, <i>Hannibal</i>, starts a new season tonight. I've been waiting excitedly for it ever since the second season ended last year, and in preparation for it, I started to reminisce on all of past events in the show. It's about a criminal profiler named Will Graham who is both gifted and burdened with the ability to empathize to an extreme extent with killers he is trying to catch. In the process of tracking down one killer, he meets psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who himself is a brilliant and elusive serial killer and who has a tendency to eat his victims. The show is full of lots of animal imagery, from using stags to shrikes to dogs to convey its heavy symbolism.<br />
In my reminiscing, I was reminded of the repeated use of representing Hannibal as a Wendigo. A Wendigo is a half-man, half-beast creature of legend that is known for its insatiable appetite for human flesh. In Algonquian legend, the Wendigo was once a man who commited some sin (usually cannibalism) and was therefore punished for it by becoming a monster. They are almost like werewolves in that they have no control over being changed into a beast (in most legends).<br />
This made me wonder on the representation of these half-man, half-beast creatures in our culture. The most famous would of course be werewolves, but why do we have such a fascination with such beings? Does it say something about ourselves and our society, that we find being transformed into (what many would consider) a monster so intriguing?<br />
I'm not so sure, but for now I'll sit back and enjoy as the image of a Wendigo version of Hannibal Lecter haunts the screen.Alex Galindohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082799677696481942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-22609715587730239462015-06-04T10:26:00.001-07:002015-06-04T10:26:11.811-07:00(Non-Human) Animal Awareness
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Ever since we talked about Elizabeth Costello I could not take my mind off of the idea of how we humans lack sympathy towards animals. I’ll admit, when I took the Elizabeth Costello challenge, I forgot within two days that I was supposed to be thinking about Elizabeth Costello’s ideas. After the we talked about the challenge, I could not stop thinking about her ideas. Last Wednesday I went to the Southern California for my sister’s high school graduation. Since it’s late May, most of my old high school friends are coming back from their respective universities and came back home for the summer. I took this opportunity to have a discussion about various topics with my friends. Eventually, we talked about the music industry and how people will do anything in their power to gain what they want. I told my friends about Elizabeth Costello and how she felt unsafe in a world where people will kill and eat (non-human) animals, creatures with feelings and emotions, without any remorse. My friends are very open to discussion and they had comments like “wow, I’ve never thought about that” or “that is so true”. Before I knew it, my friends were talking about how they felt a little unsafe now, because only one can imagine what humans will do in order to gain what they want without taking into account that most things that are living have a consciousness. This class has opened my eyes to different perspective that I would never imagine thinking about, and that’s the best thing I’ve gotten from this course. I am now aware of these issues revolving (non-human) animals and I feel like the best thing I have taken from this course is that people need to be aware of the things that happen to animals.</div>
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It always feels that animal testing and "research" is always spoken about more of the topic in health, but I came across this picture and realized that many animals are always being harmed for humans personal appearance. It makes no sense to cause harm these animals, but what makes even less sense is that we are not paying attention to the fact that if these animals are being harmed but the products meant for our faces what makes anyone think that it would harm us? It may not be right away but there is something wrong that is going on with make up if animals are being hurt this way and eventually humans maybe hurt the same way.<br />
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Around my first year of college a wrote a paper against animal experimentation, I remember reading that there may not be much positive feedback on results because animals and humans are similar but still different. For things to be given the best results testing would need to be done on humans, if they know it's not right for humans that should be a sign it isn't correct to harm these animals.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-55450371627093684062015-06-02T16:18:00.002-07:002015-06-02T16:35:43.026-07:00" You can't replace a dog like that, "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_188778711"><br /></a>
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I was browsing through social media when I came across this. It's heart breaking to see that animals are being left in someone else's care and paid yet the amount of attention being given to them is still far to little. The article explains that the person left the dog unattended in a heating cage to go to a graduation, it's understandable that an event like that is very important but the life of this animal is very important as well. It may have been an "accident" but its clear that an animal is not suppose to be left alone in a cage like that, even if it was set to turn off soon someone else should had been there to make sure it did. This family is hurting the loss of a family member, they went to Petco from what it seems like many years and the amount of trust that has been lost is painful. It is very important to realize where you are leaving your loved pets. In whose care are you leaving them and if you truly believe the person is trustworthy because you may trust someone yet something that could definitely been avoided happens and it's very hard to come back from that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-34531583278324155042015-06-01T22:56:00.001-07:002015-06-01T22:56:51.888-07:00Facts About SeaWorld's Killer Whales | SeaWorld®<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2fa6inwzLlA" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
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I've been seeing this commercial on TV lately. The SeaWorld corporation has made this commercial after the continuous backlash it has received in the recent years. I have a hard time personally understanding how these people working at SeaWorld with the animals on a daily basis can make these claims for the sake of a corporation at the animals' expense. I am absolutely not a fan of captivity. I used to love SeaWorld when I was younger and when I didn't understand what was really happening. But after reading facts of actual orca whales in the wild and seeing documentaries such as <i>Blackfish </i>and <i>Lolita</i>, I realized the impact of captivity on these highly intelligent animals. Seeing these people that work at SeaWorld make claims such as "our whales live as long as the whales that live in the wild" and that they "wouldn't work there if they didn't have the highest standard of animal care" is unnerving to watch. I'm not sure what everyone else's take is on captivity but I honestly find it unfair. It isn't right and it should not be justifiable. That's just my opinion.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723294130305767672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-19231164169699695562015-06-01T15:46:00.001-07:002015-06-01T15:46:08.152-07:00Madagascar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Madagascar is a children's animated film. It centers around a lion, a zebra, a hippopotamus, and a giraffe. The film starts off with the main characters living in a New York Zoo. They are unexpectedly shipped to Africa but along the way are shipwrecked in Madagascar. In this first movie, the lion is forcing his hunting instincts away and they are all wishing they were back at the zoo. In the second movie, while trying to leave Madagascar, they crash in Africa. There they meet more of their kind and the film ends with them living happily in Africa. All seems fine until the the third movie comes along. Here, they end up in Monte Carlo searching for the penguins in order to persuade them to leave for New York. However, their plans are interrupted by animal control who is trying to catch them. This begins a chase leading the animals to a traveling circus who take them in. By the end they realize they don't want to be trapped in cages at the zoo... but rather be in the circus.<br />
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Has anyone seen this video? Its super cute. I love seeing the genuine hearts of such innocent minds. It seems his intelligence is far beyond most children his age and he's even making many adults question their eating habits. Hope to see more kids spread positivity about vegetarianism!<br /><br />
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As I science major, I have seen this image in some of classes about ethics and science. I never really thought about it much. I would just think "oh she's a cute child" and " yuck, a rodent". Of course we would all rather want to see the child live, and placing a picture of a child next to a picture of a "pest" makes us feel less guilty about animal testing. However, what if the picture of the rat was replaced by a picture of a cute baby monkey? Would that change the message the image is trying to convey?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-82178510888585771242015-05-27T23:00:00.003-07:002015-05-27T23:00:28.022-07:00Dogsitting I love watching people's dogs when they need me to. A lot of my friends and family know I'm always willing to help them out with their pets if they need me. This past weekend I took a trip to the Dog Beach in Santa Cruz because I was watching my boss' dog Cal. She went away for the weekend and asked me to 'dog sit.' I usually never question the notion of dog sitting but when I read James A. Serpell's "Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphism Selection" I wanted to examine this concept. He talked about the relationship between pet keeping and anthropomorphism. Is dog sitting the perfect example of anthropomorphism? In what ways? Dog sitting is like baby sitting. You have to make sure the creature you are taking care of is fed, bathed, well rested, and entertained. Taking a baby out for a walk in their stroller is similar to taking a dog on a walk with their leash strapped on. I wanted to ask how you guys felt about the concept of dog sitting. Do you think dogs or any pets need to be with a human companion at all times to gain the basic necessities? Even for one night? Or do you feel as if they can fend on their own? Is dog sitting a domesticated process in its self?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-44934754728753532582015-05-27T17:15:00.000-07:002015-05-27T17:15:41.593-07:00Cricket Consciousness The other day I was trying to feed my gecko when I ran into some problems. Normally it's super easy, I keep the crickets in a cricket pen and the pen has these black tubes that the crickets naturally want to go into. I usually just take the black tube out knock it against the wall of the terrarium and they fall out... boom gecko fed. But the other day none of the crickets were in the pen so I was decided I'd have to get some crickets out with my hands... They were all super scared, naturally, and then i noticed this one little cricket that was missing a leg frantically limp running away looking super helpless. Then one of the larger crickets in the pen got on top of the handicapped cricket and was protecting him! It made me think about when we discussed consciousness earlier in the quarter and made me really believe that all animals including insects want to live just as much as we do.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15338215848196492543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-54329575381505449292015-05-27T11:06:00.002-07:002015-05-27T11:07:02.053-07:00Over-optimismTodays section H, when going over Grandin's articles, it seems like people get over-optimistic, especially when criticizing Grandin and her work. While everyone will have differing opinions on the slaughter house industry, Grandin is working with what she is given. It is frequently true that not one person can change an entire industry, as we have seen repeatedly throughout history, but we can't discount efforts to improve current conditions.<br />
I heard criticisms of Grandin's work, which is trying to improve the last moments of a cows life before slaughter. I don't think it's realistic to criticize Grandin because she contributes to the slaughter of animals or the like, because without her work the entire industry would be worse for cows. While we can continue to strive for the reduction of the slaughter industry, or any other industry with major moral problems, we can't be so idealistic to only care about the abolition of the entire industry. It takes gradual steps to improve overall conditions, many steps of which Grandin has taken. We probably won't see the abolition of the slaughter industry in our lifetime. Or maybe even our children's lifetime. But we can take steps to improve it, and that should be our goal.<br />
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This particular article caught my attention because it goes into somewhat scientific details on examining chimpanzees. It also somewhat anthropomorphizes the chimpanzees in assuming that the researchers know what they are thinking, and why they are doing what they do. However, the assessments are very detailed and strive to examine what the chimpanzee may really truly be feeling or thinking.Glenn Daytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00216886536374936635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-90825275104865316512015-05-25T21:09:00.000-07:002015-05-25T21:09:11.518-07:00"Ancient Wolf DNA Could Solve Dog Origin Mystery"<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14167690927692343252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-58026983910005234862015-05-25T20:54:00.001-07:002015-05-25T20:54:17.137-07:00The Post Human that Therefore I am (My Story)I woke up and the room was dark. I got up and decided that I was hungry so I had to go find food. as I left the confinements in which I awoke to, I went off on my search for something to eat. I stumbled upon a place where humans come out with food, I assumed it was food since they were eating it. I entered and then someone asked me for an "ID" the only thing I had on me was a little, square, flat object so I gave them that. They let me through and I saw different types of food. I went to get a "bowl" as the others were calling it and served these little colorful rings that i was suppose to add milk to. It was simple but also satisfying. ( I went to go eat cereal)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14167690927692343252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-33346166914792890192015-05-25T20:39:00.001-07:002015-05-25T20:39:29.798-07:00The Elizabeth Costello Challenge (My Experience)It was just an hour or so after section, when i decided to go eat lunch at the dining hall. the plate i decided on was a piece of steak with some broccoli and rice on the side. I was happily eating the vegetable when i decided to cut a piece of the meat on my plate, and as I am carving, it suddenly hits me that what I'm was once alive! it was a living creature the same as me and what I am stabbing with my fork is in fact dead animal flesh, the same substance that I am made of. then I started imagining that i t is my flesh on the plate and after that I lost my appetite as i got a sense of cannibalism and for the next two weeks, I could't go near stations that held the same flesh that I wear everyday, let alone seeing it on plates ready to serve. I felt sick.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14167690927692343252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-23975623571737281412015-05-25T20:21:00.001-07:002015-05-25T20:21:47.595-07:00CARTOONS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Snoopy the Dog.... Have you ever wondered why people create cartoon characters of humanized animals. I mean, they walk on two legs, they wear clothes, and they even speak the human language. If these characters act "human", then why don't animators simply make them humans? This only shows that people can only relate with animals based on cartoons they see. they also ruin the actual image of the animal. Mickey Mouse for an example is a character loved world wide by all ages, he is a mouse. A mouse is an animal that most humans try to stay away from and yet Mickey gathers fans from all around, different from an actual mouse. How is it that people love this mouse, but not the actual creature he is based on?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14167690927692343252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-91301064640846683402015-05-25T20:06:00.001-07:002015-05-25T20:06:15.470-07:00Animals and LanguageDo animals have a language? Many humans wonder and ponder over this question for many years. Humans question animals, simply because most wild life do not "speak" or "understand" the human language. There are people who believe animals don't have voices, period. But doesn't the cow say "moo"? or the cat say "meow"? If animals don't have voices, then how can people categorize the sounds that non humans make and what humans don't understand. Just because they tend to make a specific sound, does that mean they have no language? Humans say animals don't understand humans, but that is quite questionable.<br />
When you are pain, you whimper, yelp or even cry. so do animals, they use the same language we do when we are suffering. Yet animals are ignored simply because they don't specifically yell out an "ouch!" Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14167690927692343252noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-18803117720306010132015-05-20T21:06:00.003-07:002015-05-20T21:06:35.728-07:00Increasing Animal Rights Awareness<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/183275/say-animals-rights-people.aspx">http://www.gallup.com/poll/183275/say-animals-rights-people.aspx</a><br />
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Animal rights awareness has been increasing in America. With the help of film and news stories, it seems that more Americans have been listening as statistics have been increasing in favor of the animal rights movement. If more celebrities and social media would go on board, as this seems to be the most effective way in our current era, then we will be a step closer to helping solve this issue.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06697615841733556627noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660418734860036726.post-4951345463255157892015-05-20T11:42:00.001-07:002015-05-20T11:42:30.248-07:00D.H. Lawrence and the Courage To Be a Creature<a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/18/a-perfect-baby/">Letter from D.H. Lawrence to Bertrand Russell, 1916</a><br />
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This letter is so much fun! D.H Lawrence tells (philosopher and mathematician) Bertrand Russell to come live near him, "but not if you are going to be a thinker and a worker, only if you are going to be a creature, an infant …"<br />
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He ends his letter with his love and the following pronouncement:<br />
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"Stop working and being an ego, & have the courage to be a creature."<br />
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Some questions you might consider:<br />
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Is this a post humanist perspective? How so?<br />
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How do you think this letter aligns with Elizabeth Costello's (and/or Coetzee's) discussion about the difference between philosophical and poetic discourse on the subject of other animals?<br />
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Does anything Lawrence says in this letter give you new insight into "The Snake" or "Man and Bat"?Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02508545601332352668noreply@blogger.com2