YouTube and Our Perception of Cross-Species Friendship: WIll It Change Society?
Here’s an odd thought: Could viral videos actually change the culture? What are the implications, long-term, for our culture in the widespread visibility of cross-species animal friendship, animals figuring out difficulties and solving a way around them, animals responding to music—or even playing music—, etc.?
When you see “enemy” animals forming friendships, what does it say about humans who can’t figure out any better way to resolve differences than to go to war?
When a herd of buffalo join forces to chase off the large group of lions that attacked their calf, what does it say about the power of cooperation in humans?
When a bird is so familiar with a piece of music that its dance moves actually anticipate the song occasionally, what does that say about animal intelligence and memory?
Over time, these windows into animal capabilities may cause shifts in our global consciousness. It wouldn’t shock me if vegetarianism became much more common; could you really eat animals after seeing how smart and caring they can be? Perhaps cruelty toward animals will be reduced. And perhaps more of us will find ways to listen when the animals in our lives try to talk to us.
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What such videos and stories show is that we are all soul peers on the earth, and that animals have the same range of emotions as humans (and many times, a high occurrence of kindess).
If everyone became vegetarian, 10 billion animals a year would live instead of being brutally and painfully slaughtered.
@Teresa, there are many, many good reasons to be vegetarian, and that’s certainly one of them. I stopped eating meat in 1973, age 16, and have never been sorry.
What such videos and stories show is that we are all soul peers on the earth, and that animals have the same range of emotions as humans (and many times, a high occurrence of kindess).
If everyone became vegetarian, 10 billion animals a year would live instead of being brutally and painfully slaughtered.
@Teresa, there are many, many good reasons to be vegetarian, and that’s certainly one of them. I stopped eating meat in 1973, age 16, and have never been sorry.
What such videos and stories show is that we are all soul peers on the earth, and that animals have the same range of emotions as humans (and many times, a high occurrence of kindess).
If everyone became vegetarian, 10 billion animals a year would live instead of being brutally and painfully slaughtered.
@Teresa, there are many, many good reasons to be vegetarian, and that’s certainly one of them. I stopped eating meat in 1973, age 16, and have never been sorry.
What such videos and stories show is that we are all soul peers on the earth, and that animals have the same range of emotions as humans (and many times, a high occurrence of kindess).
If everyone became vegetarian, 10 billion animals a year would live instead of being brutally and painfully slaughtered.
@Teresa, there are many, many good reasons to be vegetarian, and that’s certainly one of them. I stopped eating meat in 1973, age 16, and have never been sorry.