We admire the runners fighting for the high - energy dogs, the nurturers fighting for the bottle babies, the suckers for cute who help socialize puppies and kittens, those who see the wisdom and beauty in the eyes of an older dog, the angels who take in hospice cases, the skilled caretakers who make medical rehabilitation possible, the big hearted fosters consistently serving as the bridge to a new life, the visionaries attacking the problem at its source through spay / neuter services and community outreach, the writers, photographers, videographers, and forces of marketing who make the animals shine, the adoption counselors and matchmakers who help
animals and humans find each other, and the every day dog walkers, kennel cleaners, bowl fillers, and paperwork filers who provide the very foundation upon which the rest of us stand.
Not exact matches
That soldiers of all the armies kept fighting in the horrible trenches, often with a vigor that post-moderns
find incomprehensible
and more than a little distressing, says something about the
human animal that needs discussion.
The US Food
and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary
finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England,
and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on
human health,
animal health, or the ecosystem.
While there's hardly any research yet on the hormone in
human dads,
findings elsewhere in the
animal kingdom are strong
and suggestive that it works in a similar way in people.
Myriad spiritual
and high - tech options are available to help owners
find their missing
animals, but
human trackers are still the best bet.
Also, i guess a living zombie, a snake, a rib woman, a magical tree does sound strange... i
find it much easier to believe in a cosmic event that produced life out of nothing one day
and that we slowly evolved from
animals into
human beings.
well if i had a theory
and later
found it to not be ture
and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i
found it wasnt true
and further more i would like to think that me
and all other
humans are better than coming from an
animal that eats bugs off its friends
and throws its own poo... I'm just saying
ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to
human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion
and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might
find the data on this supposed threat to going forth
and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the
animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.
The authors discuss the evolution of the
human brain, the importance of language,
and compare
human intelligence to that
found in other
animals.
Indeed, the
animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of
animals» a necessary element for
human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to
find cures for cancer
and other
human afflictions.
You will
find many social behaviors are not unique to
humans at all, there are parallels throughout the
animal,
and insect kingdooms.
When the image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to
find its order on a plane other than the
animal,
and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance on the
human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.
I did
find that they were suppose to be
animals that understood
human language
and hunters would chat to them.
As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the
human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent
human being, I can not deny the facts
found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation
and confirmation of planet plant
and animal life, the upheaval of mountains,
and history of the sea.
At most, you can
find Genesis 9:1 - 6 as allowing eating of meat
and not explicitly stating that it is OK to eat
human flesh (as long as you don't consider
humans as «moving» creatures), but as far as looking at the law in detail goes; search the Law in detail
and you will
find many explicitly laid out things that you «shall not eat» listing many different types of
animals and circumstances but you will not
find humans listed among them.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White
finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute
humans, comic
animals,
and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children
and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
Instead, I
find increasingly within the
animal rights movement
and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated from the rest of nature the
human species has become.
Indeed, in my decades of work around issues such as euthanasia, utilitarian bioethics,
animal rights, transhumanism,
and other associated agendas, I have
found that the more one rejects
human exceptionalism, the more likely one is to declare that immoral
and (still) illegal wrongs — like infanticide — are virtuous.
Morals do not come from belief
and in fact we can
find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape;
human sacrifice;
animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.
Yet Prof. Carlin
finds the concept of
animal rights to be «extraordinarily dangerous»
and considers those who promote this idea to be «enemies of the
human race.»
What we can safely say as a phenomenological fact, however, is that we
human beings do not
find our place, our fulfilment
and our identity in the organic environment around us, as the
animals do.
As ancient man surveyed his world, he
found himself surrounded on all sides with movement
and change, not only in fellow -
humans,
animals and birds, but in running water, scudding clouds, heavenly bodies traveling across the sky, rising dust - storms, the occasionally quaking earth
and the vegetation which sprang up, flowered, fruited
and died.
That is why Jesus says that when a sinner repents, heaven is overtaken with joy, heaven goes crazy of the salvation of a
human - being — unlike the Pharisees
and Scribes that go crazy over
finding a lost
animal!
Thorpe stated that he personally had
found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on
animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of
animal communication
and eventually
human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information
and description of states of affairs.
This hardening occurs to the extent that particular gaps, such as that between self - conscious
human experience
and that of
animals, is asserted to be fundamentally different from all the other gaps to be
found in reality.
In this regard, we described two types of biologically - based teleologies: (i) an external teleology, where there is a deliberate
and conscious setting of goals, those that are generally
found among
human beings
and possibly in higher
animals;
and (ii) an internal teleology, where there is no self - directed or conscious goal - seeking on the part of living organisms, such as in the natural selection of favorable traits among biologically adaptive species.
The essence of the
human person, that which specifies the
human person amongst the entire
animal kingdom (of which he is a part),
and that which sets him apart as a species, is to be
found in his rational nature.
Adopting the second view not only fits our natural intuitions of the other
animals, especially the higher forms, but fits also the evolutionary scheme according to which our
human traits are intensifications
and elaborations of traits
found in our prehuman ancestors.
Also
found in the emperor's tomb were
human and animal figurines, chariots
and horses,
and grains like millet
and rice.
Although more
and more
human studies are being conducted to validate claims
found in
animals, many studies are with patients with a certain illness or condition (ex.
Stevia & Blood Sugar: Stevia has been
found in both
animal and human studies to have beneficial effects on blood sugar balance (1).
N - acetylneuraminic acid is
found in whey protein, hen eggs
and other
animal and human substances.
In 2005, he
founded the project Future Food, which gathers
and presents a worldwide portfolio of alternatives to
animal products for
human nutrition, as well as possible future technologies for food production, such as biofermentation
and clean meat.
Bacteria
found in
humans,
animals and food continue to show resistance to widely used antimicrobials, says the latest report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
and the European Centre for Disease Prevention
and Control (ECDC).
The only
animals Rozin
found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees
and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with
humans.
It's important because - through us - you get access to world - class research facilities
and dedicated scientists, food technologists etc. that are constantly seeking to
find cutting edge discoveries that will drive advances in
human and animal health.
High levels of E. coli are considered an indicator of other pathogens
found in
human and animal waste.
It is thought, however, that levels of these fatty acids at levels greater than those
found in
human breast milk may have adverse effects on growth, survival,
and neurodevelopment in other
animals.
Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance
found in
animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift
and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.
This is because their bodies can't break down lactose, a sugar
found in the milk of
humans and animals.
Based on the amounts being
found in people
and what is known about the metabolism of bisphenol A from
animal experiments, it also appears that
human exposures are above the current U.S. safety limit, according to the assessment.
The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was
founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists
and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice
and plant,
animal,
human and environmental health.
«By studying how education changes the brain, we can
find out how this uniquely
human experience induces change in both brain structure
and function — something we can not do with
animal models.»
Leendertz
and colleagues from several different scientific disciplines traveled to Meliandou hoping to
find the
animal source, or reservoir,
and learn more about how the disease might have spilled over into
humans.
To better understand their
findings, the team examined the
animal model for APS1 (i.e. mice with the same genetic defect as
human patients with the syndrome)
and found that male mice spontaneously developed an inflammatory disease in their prostate glands — a so - called prostatitis —
and reacted to transglutaminase 4.
This
finding came as a surprise since it was assumed that as a consequence of the evolutionary divergence between
human and other
animal viruses, the genes that code for LANA could not be switched.
Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole
animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues
and may not predict effects in
humans, or to perform tests on microscopic
human cells
found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever
and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.
Her
findings, published in the Journal of
Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks
and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in
human populations as well.
Observing the
human animal in its natural habitat — the shopping mall — they documented 1200 instances of laughter,
and found that only 10 to 20 per cent of them were responses to anything remotely resembling a joke.
Though they are
found across the
animal world from insects to mammals, research into
human pheromones has been dogged by flaky experimental designs
and dubious commercial endorsements, with the result that the entire field has a whiff of the disreputable about it.