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Researchers Find It Very Necessary To Keep Blinkers On. They Don't Want To Admit That The Animals They Are Working With Have Feelings. They Don't Want To Admit That They Might Have Minds And Personalities Because That Would Make It Quite Difficult For Them To Do What They Do; So We Find That Within The Lab Communities There Is A Very Strong Resistance Among The Researchers To Admitting That Animals Have Minds, Personalities And Feelings.

Words Can Enhance Experience, But They Can Also Take So Much Away. We See An Insect And At Once We Abstract Certain Characteristics And Classify It - A Fly. And In That Very Cognitive Exercise, Part Of The Wonder Is Gone. Once We Have Labeled The Things Around Us We Do Not Bother To Look At Them So Carefully. Words Are Part Of Our Rational Selves, And To Abandon Them For A While Is To Give Freer Reign To Our Intuitive Selves.

Chimpanzees, More Than Any Other Living Creature, Have Helped Us To Understand That There Is No Sharp Line Between Humans And The Rest Of The Animal Kingdom. It's A Very Blurry Line, And It's Getting More Blurry All The Time.

Thousands Of People Who Say They "love" Animals Sit Down Once Or Twice A Day To Enjoy The Flesh Of Creatures Who Have Been Utterly Deprived Of Everything That Could Make Their Lives Worth Living And Who Endured The Awful Suffering And The Terror Of The Abattoirs...

Researchers Find It Very Necessary To Keep Blinkers On. They Don't Want To Admit That The Animals They Are Working With Have Feelings.