PART II of the interview with Marc Bekoff: ‘More compassion for animals feeds into more compassion for people.’

Posted February 21st, 2010 Health/ Vegetarianism, Intelligent animal, Interviews

This is the second part of the interview with Marc Bekoff, vegan and professor emeritus Ecology and Evolutionairy Biology from the University of Colorado.

INTERVIEW – PART I:

Most people attribute emotions to their companion animals, but not to chickens, pigs, cows or other non-companion animals. We treat the animals we eat different than our pets. Biologist Dr. Marc Bekoff is hopeful and makes a call for a more compassionate world where people treat one another and animals better.

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PART I of the interview with Marc Bekoff: ‘Animals have emotions and morality’

Posted February 14th, 2010 Intelligent animal, Interviews

It took some time, but finally it is online: the first part of the interview with Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus Ecology and Evolutionairy Biology from the University of Colorado, and specialized in the social behaviour and emotional lives of animals.  As a bonus there is a video, with many thanks to  Robin Van Nuffel!

The interview has been published in the science magazine EOS (in Dutch) and can be downloaded here.

The second part of the interview ”More compassion for animals feeds into more compassion for people’  will be published online soon.

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