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November 29, 2003

My Magic Wand!

The news is horrifying of course: Antelope gores San Diego Zoo keeper in stomach. It seems that an African Antelope that had been kept in "isolation" for over 6 months, attacked a caretaker that had entered his cage (notice that word is never used in the original story?), causing some injury to the 33 year old female zoo employee. I certainly wish the nameless keeper all the best and hope her wounds are not of the serious type.

A few years ago somebody contacted me from a magazine geared towards the pre-teen and younger crowd and wanted some random views on diverse topics. The questions they submitted were appropriately of rather playful nature and one of them said "if you had a magic wand and could turn any one thing different in the world, what would it be?"

This wasn't long after my attempt to run for office and my opponent's stated "big accomplishment" was bringing a couple of Pandas to Toronto Zoo, which was part of our electoral district. My reply was that I would switch the role of all zookeepers and their captive animals for a year, housing them in very comfortable condos and feeding them prime steaks everyday, just for them to grasp the idea that none of that replaces the loss of freedom that is obviously felt by the animals as well. Well, my comments were never published and since animals couldn't vote, I couldn't get elected in that district (riding) either. Yet hundreds of thousands of animals are still kept in small and large cages across the globe, purely for the entertainment purpose of their human captors and please don't even begin to give me the stories of great work the zoos are doing in saving endangered species, etc. as you must know that is not their primary purpose and only a very tiny fraction of animals they enslave, need some type of intervention in order to survive.

I hope these jails, like the other ones housing innocent humans, are one day abandoned and demolished forever and humanity starts a long process of re-thinking its relationship with the world it occupies.

Posted by Pedram at November 29, 2003 08:41 AM

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Hear, hear!

There is nothing more exciting than seeing wild animals in their own havitat... giraffes gallopping across the fields at sunrise, now that is a sight worth crossing the world to see.

Posted by: nobbog at November 29, 2003 01:01 PM

Pedram jan, couldn't agree more. It's heartbreaking. When my mum was here as much I wanted her to have a good time I could not bring myself to take her to the zoo.

Posted by: Haleh at November 29, 2003 05:38 PM

Its funny Pedram's last word was ....the world it OCCUPIES. We homosapiens must evelove to a point where our presents in this planet is not viewed as occupation!!!! I guess we can start by working on our fellow conservatives first. Since the whole lot of them belive in Manefest of Destany. I have yet to see the two legged one in the wild!!!

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