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More Equal Than Others

How humans interact with animals.

Photo Essay by Jan van IJken, Text by Mother Jones
Tue October 31, 2006 6:29 PM PST

Dutch photographer Jan van IJken spent the past several years watching humans interact with animals in a range of settings—from research labs and factory farms to exotic bird shows. The result is a series of remarkable images documenting the shifting and ambivalent ways we value other creatures.

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      Divine Justice & Just Plain Food

      Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 8, 2009 - 3:58pm.

      My, but doesn't the notion of a retributive karma - as you sew, so shall you also reap - just come flooding through as these photos are considered? How humbling is the thought of divine justice, the reflection that God could have put any of us in the place of an animal we treat so harshly. Judgment is still ahead until sealed in the hour of our death.

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      It is humans who decide how

      Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 1, 2009 - 8:22am.

      It is humans who decide how they act and how they treat other beings. God doesn't regulate behavior but if he did would he condemn any soul to a life of cold torture? If so he is no god of mine.

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