Ethics and Animals: Recent Comments

Comment on Animal Testing in Europe is up by 3.2%

melody sloane — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:10:26 GMT

It is unbelievable to see that so many animals are tested for many non important reasons. in my opinion animal testing should be illegal.

Comment on Climate Change: Accomplish the Impossible or Experience the Unthinkable

Bonnie Dawson — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:21:56 GMT

I agrre whole heartedly. The evidence is clear to those who choose to see. Here in the North, our Polar Bears are starving to death due to early melts, not having the ice to hunt from. Bears have been found washed ashore,drowned due to having to swim greater distances to find ice from which to hunt. Only recently a mother and two young cubs were shot in Deline, they had travelled over 400 km from their normal hunting grounds in search of food. Autopsy showed the three were starving. Remote communities have RCMP detachments that do not have tranquilizer guns at the ready, which they should have in order to relocate these animals when they come into towns, an easier solution is to shoot. Winters in my area produce less snow that in years past,warmer temps etc. I do not find them as severe as back in Ontario my place of origin. It is time Canada started to live up to it's commitments.

Comment on Wait til Santa finds out: Toronto zoo kills its male baby reindeers

Danielle — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:17 GMT

Finally, the dirty little secret of the zoo industry is revealed. The animals are mere marketing tools, to be moved around to increase dollars at the gate, or, euthanized as surplus for tragically being born the "wrong" gender.

Comment on Hope for the North

Bonnie Dawson — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:38:34 GMT

I am the person who started this Petition and who provided all of the above information and photos. I thank you so much for posting the article.

A recent email forwarded to me cites another typical scenario: a young female dog soon to come into heat, the owner queried about how soon she would, and once given the answer said it would soon be time to shoot her as she did not want to deal with pups. The female was turned loose, taken by someone else, tied to a two foot lead, Barked alot, and was turned loose again. Thankfully she has been taken in by a caring person, but now there is an urgent need to find foster care for her. She is a 5-6 month old Husky pup.

One of many on-going situations, very common place. Positive Action HAS GOT to be taken .

Comment on U.S. Exposed as Leading Ivory Market

JM — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:13:56 GMT

This is a scandal! Who enforces CITES in the US and if this information is known, why is it not being done?

Can we get this onto the front page of the Washington Post, NY Times?

Comment on Wait til Santa finds out: Toronto zoo kills its male baby reindeers

Theresa Siskind — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:21:26 GMT

This must be stopped. What can we do!

Comment on Wait til Santa finds out: Toronto zoo kills its male baby reindeers

JM — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:54:20 GMT

This practice epitomizes what is wrong with zoos. They are 'collections' that must be 'managed' in size and content. Like stamp collections or coin collections. Fundamentally wrong for living creatures.

Comment on Wait til Santa finds out: Toronto zoo kills its male baby reindeers

Jan P — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:21:28 GMT

so proud of their breeding programs. would love to see the stats on how many babies are euthanized. Babies bring in the visitors for zoos don't they.

Comment on A Shark Named Shiva

Dipesh Pabari — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:49:13 GMT

JM - sorry to hear this and thoughts are with Canada's wildbirds. I am getting to the point where I feel, "how much longer are we going to go on like this..."

Comment on A Shark Named Shiva

JM — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:08:39 GMT

And tonight in Canada we have oil-coated ducks' photos on the home page of the national newspaper. Syncrude is a company with oilsands in Alberta, and they failed to get their noisemaking cannons going in time to scare off a flock of mallard ducks before they landed on a pond full of oil; 500 were killed and only five survived thanks to this filthy stuff that we really must learn to manage with much much less of. Yet another form of captivity, humans to oil.

Dipesh, thanks for your thought-provoking piece.