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By Emily Mosher
Have you ever eaten a potato chip? A cookie? How about washing your hair, ever use shampoo? Over 50 percent of packaged foods in grocery stores contain palm oil, a product derived originally from the jungles of West Africa. The oil is taken from the flesh of the palm oil fruit, by pressing the seeds together and gathering the chemicals collected from this process. The problem with this common ingredient, is that the plants that the oil comes from can only be found in jungles, jungles where non-human animals, specifically orangutans, live and depend on these trees to survive.
By Sam Orinstien The food industry has been under pressure by people who are working on the behalf of human and nonhuman animals to improve conditions for animals used for food and to improve the quality of these foods. There have been some laws enacted that have led to different labels on food products such as eggs, dairy, and meat. The issue is that the majority of people don’t understand these labels but they pay the extra money for the ambiguous terms to feel better about their own consumption.
by Margaret Waters One of the green sea turtles living at the Minnesota Zoo Photo by Bryan Wilkins In the Minnesota Zoo's Discovery Bay and Tropical Reef center, three sea turtles swim lazily about next to tropical fish, white-tip reef sharks, and a green moray eel. Two are green sea turtles, while the third is a Kemps-Ridley sea turtle named Mardi. All three were once wild sea turtles, with the same story: they collided with boats while swimming.
by Kallie Wolseth What is a puppy mill? According to Kailey A. Burger, “’Puppy mill’ is a term used to describe a commercial dog breeding facility that profits from selling puppies on a large scale. Those operating puppy mills frequently prioritize profitability at the expense of their animals’ wellbeing. As a result, breeders, seeking the most affordable means of production possible, create deplorable and unsafe living conditions for their animals.” So essentially, puppy mills operate with profit as their primary goals and pay little regards to the well being of their animals, thus creating an unsafe living situation.
By Students in SOC 285W, Spring 2017 In a class discussion in Animals and Society (SOC 285W) we tried to figure out if there were any qualities that set humans apart from all other nonhuman animals. Students brainstormed a list of qualities that might only belong to humans, then spent the week researching if any nonhuman animals had these qualities also. Here is the list of the qualities we thought of and what we learned.
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