There is a lot of evidence that letting children “gawk” at animals in zoos helps them develop empathy for animals and leads them to live more eco friendly lives 

Many zoos are in place to help conserve dangerously endangered animals and education the public about them.  

Accredited zoos cant be for profit. Accredited zoos are great and do tons of good educational and conservation work (LA Zoo, San Diego Zoo, etc). Non-accredited zoos are bad and should be closed with their animals being released or, if that’s not possible, going to accredited zoos.

Some people don’t want all that jazz. To each their own!

fool’s gonna fool.

Exactly less risk might be a better way to think about it.

My heart is now filled with jealousy every time a delivery rider whizzes away from me at a stop sign,...

Are these not weed based? I saw those before and just assumed they were full of weed.

My sister founded and is the director of a zoo in Central America. All of her animals are rescues, and indigenous to her country. They were either abandoned, or abused. She teaches that country about their resources, their environment and provides educational opportunities through her tropical education center. I urge…

You can kill a zebra to feed a lion; doesn’t work that well in reverse.  Basic nature dictates the herbivores will feed the carnivores.

Well yeah, one death vs. two deaths. It sucks, but it makes sense. 

I understand what you mean about zoos being problematic, especially since they were started in an era of white supremacy/imperialism and haven’t always been great about giving animals good environments. But they do do a really important job in keeping species alive that we humans may otherwise have killed off into…

The point of masks isn’t to stop aerosolized virus, it’s to stop respiratory droplets, which are much, much larger. Double-layer fabric is actually quite effective at preventing an infected person from spreading respiratory droplets full of virus. https://masks4all.co/letter-over-100-prominent-health-experts-call-for-c…

PSA for almost every single employee: your company is not a ‘family,’ even if management likes to say that it is, and they won’t treat you as such when the chips are down. I tell this to my younger team members when necessary: the company looks out for itself, and you should look out for yourself. This isn’t bad, it…

That’s 7 more seconds spent thinking about something other than the stock market, or feeling sorry for your oil buddies who aren’t invited to the Templar meetings anymore. You know, important stuff.

We’re running out of ways to judge how strangers spend their money. :(

I’m sure her response would have been better, if only because she would likely not have wasted a goddamn month to develop our own test when the WHO had one ready to go. But however much better her response would have been, the pushback from republicans would have been greater. I guarantee you GOP governors would defy…

Hush, you. There’s confirmation bias in play here, and you bringing in counterexamples disturbs its flow.

I trained my dog to shit in a box because I lived in an apartment.

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