It's this kinda Science that drives me batty...

December 23, 2008

NYT 12/13 A Highly Evolved Propensity for Deceit

Well, how many monkey brains did they dissect to come up with that

hypothesis? I was flabbergasted when I read this NYT article, which reminded

how much the mainstream media hates animals, and refuses to support them in

almost any way. I mean tying the villains de jour (Madoff & Rod ³Potty

Mouth² Blagojevich) with primates is just utterly ridiculous. Here was my

heat of the moment comment on the times website:

This is one of the stupidest articles read here in some time. Tying primates

with Madoff is just a cheap journalistic trick. Why would an ape trick a

jailor into getting close to the cage...to kill him of course for the

barbaric treatment of being locked in a cell. My German Sheppard would do

the same if he thought about it, and happened to be caged for life. And why

do Rhesus monkey's " steal " ? The answer is certainly not deep & pathological,

they are just doing what animals do...eating, playing, surviving. If this is

some bizarre attempt to justify human behaviour, it's not working here.

Humans have evolved into creatures that mistreat themselves, as well as any

other creature around them. Leave the primates out of it. They have nothing

to do with it.

But after cooling off, this question came to mind (and is keeps coming and

coming and coming): how do we as activists or just plain nice people fight

back for animals in the media. Not all of us have evolved into stupid

uncaring supposedly intelligent media contributors that slam animals at

every turn. What to do?

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