Tag: Bronx Zoo
With Screenings in Chicago, New Documentary Human Zoos Prompts Discussion, Debate
The film shows how a number of Christians led opposition to both human zoos and eugenics.
Survey: Americans Favor Education on Scientific Racism; Call for Famed Zoo, Museum to Apologize
“Most Americans realize we need to learn from the past,” said John West, writer and director of the new documentary Human Zoos. “But we can’t learn from the past if we cover it up.”
On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”
Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo.
Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights”
Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal.
Understatement: According to Current Zoo Director, Caging Man “Shouldn’t Have Happened”
Hammering home the lesson about “our own evolutionary history” was exactly the purpose behind displaying and humiliating an African man with monkeys.