Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
What zoos (and wars) say about us
Please allow me to introduce the following presuppositions:
1. Whether you call it a cage, a cell, a jail, a pen, a ward, a prison, a wildlife center, or an enclosure…incarceration is incarceration
2. A culture that captures, confines, and exploits animals for profit is highly likely to regularly promote and engage in other forms of violence and exploitation
I contemplated these truisms upon hearing that Libya’s Tripoli Zoo had been abandoned during fighting in late August.
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