“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Are Whales Slaves

“A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.” HT Bill Benzon.

1 comment:

Bill Benzon said...

After hearing arguments from both sides, the judge dismissed the suit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/us/california-suit-that-called-whales-slaves-is-dismissed.html?src=rechp