Food for Thought Before the Course gets Under Way...

Links

• On the 'rewilding' of North America: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/rewilding.kr.html 
• "A Feeling of Weirdness", by John C. Lilly (on dolphin cognition): http://deoxy.org/lil_weirdness.htm 
• "Good Dog, Smart Dog" (NYT), on canine cognition: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 
• See also "The Ethical Dog" (SciAm): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-ethical-dog 
• NYT op-ed, "Something Wild" (on chimps): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/opinion/06siebert.html?_r=2 
• Another NYT piece: "Political Animals (Yes, Animals)": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/science/22angi.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=88f4d7be0f1e8ce8&ex=1201150800 
• "Baby gorilla pictured 'relaxing' in human-like pose": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7145982/Baby-gorilla-pictured-relaxing-in-human-like-pose.html 
• One of many op-eds on the recent killer whale trainer death: http://www.norwalkreflector.com/articles/2010/03/01/front/doc4b88b0d9bebdc449196545.txt 
• "Switzerland to vote on appointing lawyers for abused pets" (Telegraph) [vote didn't pass]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7373154/Switzerland-to-vote-on-appointing-lawyers-for-abused-pets.html
• See also:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103520836794314.html 
• British MP calls for (all) zoos to be closed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7552959/Minister-calls-for-zoos-to-be-closed.html 
• "Looking at gorillas through crazy-colored glasses" (Grist): http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-03-looking-at-gorillas-through-crazy-colored-glasses/ 

Videos

• Jane Goodall at TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_on_what_separates_us_from_the_apes.html
• Bile farmers and the plight of asian moon bears: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/vietnam/100211/moon-bears-bile
• TED video on crow intelligence: http://playstopgo.com/video/885
• Study: "rats laugh when you tickle them": http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/04/rats_laugh_when_you_tickle_the.html 
• "China accused of skinning live animals for fur": http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/291483 
• On a lighter note: "Walk on the Wild Side" excerpt (BBC show): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5piEann_nU 

Links on companion animals

• "Good Dog, Smart Dog" (NYT), on canine cognition: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 
• "Swimming with dolphins 'traumatizes' them, scientists claim": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7456102/Swimming-with-dolphins-traumatises-them.html 
• "The Ethical Dog" (Mark Bekoff in SciAm): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-ethical-dog 
• "What it's like to think with a dog's brain": http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/inside-dog-dog/story?id=10494333 
• "China Accused of Skinning live animals for fur": http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/291483 
• (graphic) example of an undercover PETA vid on mice handling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT8lxLX3u_c&feature=player_embedded#! 

On utilitarianism in general

• Handy (but also cheesy) ppt on utilitarianism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzODqNEfLI
• Excellent three-part interview with Peter Singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bi81JcddWc
• Segment from Peter Singer interview in Examined Life (the film we watched parts of last week): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3LS_qEkNg\
• "What is the Value of a Human Life" (re. differential payouts for 9/11 victims): http://thisibelieve.org/essay/45426/

Links on animal consciousness, primates and cetaceans

• TED video: Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_on_what_separates_us_from_the_apes.html 
• Gombe chimp 'outtakes': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXCAGOQGBk 
• mother and child in Gombe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmcNWJpIXp8 
• Other relevant TED talks -- Jane Goodall 4 years later (in 2007): http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_at_tedglobal_07.html 
• Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html 
• A case of chimp problem-solving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMh1mBi3cI&feature=player_embedded 
• Swimming with sperm whales: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HggHr21Z6kU&feature=related 
• "12 artsy animals that paint": http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/pets-animals/photos/12-artsy-animals-that-paint/dolphins 
• "Dolphin cognitive abilities raise ethical questions, says Emory neuroscientist": http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218173112.htm 
• "Swimming with dolphins traumatizes them, scientists claim": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7456102/Swimming-with-dolphins-traumatises-them.html 
• "Like chimps, whales and dolphins found to possess qualities of personhood": http://bluelivingideas.com/topics/marine-ocean-sea-life/chimps-whales-dolphins-possess-qualities-personhood/ 
• Dan Dennett on consciousness: http://tinyurl.com/2chm3hp (and a very different perspective is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=genaPkf99bY )
• Understanding theory of mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtjLSa50uk
• "Can Monkeys Talk" (Robert Seyfarth): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lsF83rHKFc&feature=channel 
• Interview with cognitive ethologist Marc Bekoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOWnXJW9LjI  
• Kanzi the bonobo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dhc2zePJFE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRM7vTrIIis 
•  Another kind of assistance animal...: http://www.pawnation.com/2010/06/11/blind-dog-has-her-own-seeing-eye-dog/ 
• life on earth chart: http://evogeneao.com/images/Evolution_poster_lg.gif 
• Inevitably, PETA's two cents on paul the octopus...: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/PETA-Demands-Soccer-Octopus-Released-1578  
• Video of dolphin bubble rings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q  
• Link for the Great Ape Project (referenced by Bekoff): http://www.greatapeproject.org/ 
• Gary Larson cartoon about Jane Goodall: http://www.lessonsforhope.org/scrapbook1.asp?sec=5&pgid=205 

Links on Wild Animals

•  Pieter Hugo photoessay, "The Hyena and Other Men": http://www.pieterhugo.com/selected-work/the-hyena-other-men/2.jpg/  
• Marti Kheel (author of ecofeminist critique of hunting) on the ethic of care: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoBzJlrBy4 
• Clip from Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7wCqlcdRm0 
• A Kalahari 'persistence hunt' (with Sir David Attenborough): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo 
• on shooting a lion...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNgwZgoKFc 
• on shooting an '8 point buck': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNBynsVHAc 
• Some (politicized) comic relief: Lewis black on hunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ene75RM3w 
• On aerial wolf hunting (note the creator -- Defenders of Wildlife...i.e., not without bias, obviously): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr183lk-wQk 
• a very different perspective on helicopter hunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHmYsyVniE 
• A hunter's view (in Leopold's tradition...a blend of Kheel's holist/holy hunter): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcabnNjd1I 
• On the bushmeat trade (in this case in Cameroon): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDMFuOGyLsw, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfQQ6k4JUlQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsg8SRAGJc  
• The effect of the recent global food crisis on the bushmeat market: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfUTLf3HHc 
• This is from the Born Free Foundation (an example of an individual-oriented wildlife organization): http://www.bornfree.org.uk/
• Defenders of Wildlife is another (domestic) wildlife org: http://www.defenders.org/ 
• Awesome Nat Geo photographer encounter with a leopard seal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg 
• Only semi-related...trailer for Inuit film Ataranjuat ('the fast runner'): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30kkn3FUHo 
• Richard Louv on biophilia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeOSzDUCPkA 
• David Attenborough BBC special on Darwin bicentennial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7U4k522Pg 
• Flashy vid on urban sprawl and the 'new urbanism': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJt_YXIoJI 
• On habitat fragmentation and the edge effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGWFh6vCd7I 
• microcredit website I mentioned yesterday: http://www.kiva.org/  
• Eagle cam (one of many): http://www.fs.fed.us/outdoors/naturewatch/eaglecam.html
• The lighter side of bushmeat: http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/product_image.php?imageid=107  
• On bear baiting...(not pleasant): http://www.wspa-usa.org/pages/391_bear_baiting.cfm, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7013650950411952306#, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qG3lYWnuD0   
• Speaking of illegal bushmeat...: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10341174 
• Smoking vulture brains: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=south-african-gamblers-smoke-endang-2010-06-10 
• Matt Ridley at TED on what 'really' sets humans apart: 'ideas having sex': http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html  

Links on Animals as Symbols, Speciesism, and 'Abolitionism'

• John Berger's famous Ways of Seeing (not specifically about animals, but parallels can be drawn): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI 
• Carl Sagan (audio from Pale Blue Dot): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUTJAwWmsE 
• Richard Dawkins on speciesism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQv19SWl_SA 
• A more radical perspective: Steve Best on Animal Liberation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLs-L-1s8cg 
• Another strongly abolitionist perspective: interview with Gary Francione: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8NXatlQhc 
• Francione's blog: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/ 
• Carl Cohen: "why animals don't have rights": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbk7xY9t-UQ
• Tom Regan: "a case for animal rights": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5RRLBC1S3w 
• Feng Shui and animal guardians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhKVyW_0au4 
• On Wiccans and animal symbolism...: http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin 
• A (cheesy) vid on animal totems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2hC66InqnA&feature=related 
• "King Tut's Shrine: Animal Iconography": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDGp6BZz2pQ 
• A very different--and quite odd--form of symbolism: the 'cheezburger empire': http://icanhascheezburger.com/ 

Videos on Food and Agriculture

• Michael Pollan on Bill Moyers Journal (2008): http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11282008/watch.html
• NOW (PBS) interview with Robert Kenner, creater of "Food, Inc": http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/ - Food Inc. trailer available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0
• FRONTLINE, "Fair Grounds", on coffee in Guatamala and Mexico: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/guatemala.mexico/thestory.html
• NASA: Science for a Hungry World (Part 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RJ6AqWAOEg
• Amy Goodman and Raj Patel on the global food crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqNTP2JHuY
• A "documentary" (more of an ad, really) on the role of branding in one of the world's most loved brands, Coca-Cola: http://www.hulu.com/watch/108764/cnbc-originals-coca-cola-the-real-story-behind-the-real-thing 
• Nick Kristof on micronutrients in Africa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNWeL5P3nY
• A recent USDA report on food insecurity in the USA (as reported on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer): http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/july-dec09/hungerreport_11-17.html
• Trailer for "Meat the Truth" (about livestock and environment): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z-upjfFCA4
• Louise Fresco on Feeding the Whole World (TED Talks, 2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmXwOgNq7c
• "Urban farming grows up" (on vertical farming): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scs2SIeIkkM
• More on vertical farming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uLTOMsF3uU
• Food Production between now and 2050: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwKOBBo5co
• Moby on veganism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytZI6EEXvQ&feature=related 

Links on Animal Agriculture

• The 'real story' on chicken farms...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fBiuH0gKI
• "The Meatrix": http://www.themeatrix.com/
• Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) vid: 'farm animals and us' (pt 1 of 3): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbEHP3RzUE&feature=related
• Youtube link to the film Earthlings (BE WARNED: this is very graphic and disturbing, and is about a larger issue than animal agriculture per se:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkLt88_u5lQ
• One recent and disturbing event: Egypt's pig cull in response to the H1NI 'swine' flu (over 300,000 pigs killed): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYB4sDKh3FI
• Trent Loos and a University of Wisconsin prof. on 'sustainability': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xZ5wFuiCA0
• A global (activist's) perspective: "factory farming in India": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClpXIzSzNoM 
• A quintessential segment of 'meat-and-potatoes Americana' with Baxter Black (why am I playing this??): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rQzUVQjd8
• A critical view of the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) 2005 global conference on animal welfare (from CIWF): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZV5nHLpS4&feature=related
• A 'farmer's view' on confinement agriculture: 'battle of animal welfare versus animal agriculture': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_geGpOX5n34
• "The CAFO Reader": http://www.grist.org/article/food-cafo-reader-editor-daniel-imhoff-on-the-ills-of-factory-farms/ 
• "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe at TED on livestock and local knowledge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc 
• BBC documentary, "the woman who thinks like a cow", about Temple Grandin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ycu3JFRrA (see also this TED video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_9f5x0f1Q)
• Animal Ag Alliance clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigGTgP_qDE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_xD-01f5M
• Some food for thought...: http://ribbu.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/whole-human.jpg 
• recent news on antibiotic use: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-gunther/usda-antibiotics_b_649673.html 
• "Hitler was a vegetarian": http://www.vegetariansareevil.com/hitler.html 
• Website for a prominent livestock trade journal: http://www.feedstuffs.com/ME2/Default.asp 

Videos on Inhumane Practices in Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) [I won't be playing these in class--they are quite graphic. Watch them if you feel like it]

• Undercover PETA coverage of cruelty in a hog facility: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/11/fox_news.php
• Undercover HSUS video of mistreatment at an organic veal slaughterhouse (subsequently shut down): http://www.newser.com/story/73188/video-sting-shuts-down-cruel-slaughterhouse.html
• Trailer for the film Earthlings (this film is especially difficult to watch, so be warned...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp1BpiLaRE
• 'the holocaust of the animals': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8y_DOSPyVA 
• Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) passage on recent World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) guidelines for transport and slaughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZV5nHLpS4&feature=related 

Links on Animal Experimentation

• One view 'pro': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGy1QHPyvtM 
• Not your usual march: defending research at UCLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RALTi42h0k 
• and a lecture from what appears to be the same event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JftURPWzvY 
• Another view pro (from Frankie Trull's Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR)): http://www.fbresearch.org/FeaturesCampaigns/Majestic/tabid/430/Default.aspx 
• One view 'con' (graphic!) (slideshow set to emotional music...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmJh_YO7i18 
• Another (graphic) view con ("good science or pointless cruelty?") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgFWIh71KjY 
• Antivivisectionist advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__-uVG53ieo 
• PETA ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COmiFdu61Js&feature=related 
• Website for 'stop huntington animal cruelty': http://www.shac.net/ 
• On Huntington Life Sciences and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqT1FR1XxPo 
• SHAC 7 website: http://www.shac7.com/ (and wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Huntingdon_Animal_Cruelty)
• One lecturer's view on ecoterrorism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teb5A08o5-Q 
• Understanding the "3Rs': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26E4-qd1tys 
• One of the creators of the 3Rs, singing (no, seriously): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ShQdc7Kbmo 
• On alternatives to animal use in toxicity testing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPrjfdyszgc 
• Information on prominent antivivisectionist Henry Spira: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5iWnvtbtz8, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0maTqPxKOI  
• On Class 'B' Dealers: http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/pets_experiments/ 
• For reference: the veterinarian's oath: http://netvet.wustl.edu/vetoath.htm 
• Harlow's maternal deprivation experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrBrk9DXVk 

On Zoos and Aquariums

• Cheetah sets a record...(but so what?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-za0uk158FE 
• Australia zoo tour with Steve Irwin (portraying his signature 'hands on' technique...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlDXZywedvc 
• San Diego Zoo, which we've discussed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Eard_prNY 
• An odd sight: a cartoon of animals visiting a zoo. Strange, if you think about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXpx2OEWBdA 
• A recent case of a trainer being hurt by an elephant (with PETA being ready to put in their two cents, of course): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8267P1cXdt8 
• I can't understand this, but the message is pretty clear: against Moscow-area zoos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Fx88f7f1k 
• Local news clip on orca attack, trainer death, and PETA involvement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoCYZSWsyDk&feature=related
• Jean-Michel Cousteau's take on the issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp8MkPyBE5A 
• On marine mammals in captivity in general, from Naomi Rose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhM8y0sxqL4&feature=PlayList&p=E6973725DDC30648&playnext=1&index=5 
• Series of videos of forced circus-like behavior at Chinese zoos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmvTIkG5xpM 
• In a Chinese zoo, "five Euros will buy you the chance to feed one animal to another": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LeuQcsj-2w 
• "Sad Eyes and Empty Lives": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuMy_hTYXOU 
• Jane Goodall on the merits of what zoos can do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9eqh_kGg-Q&feature=related 
• World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), 'what we do' clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz7tQIV3Jro&feature=related 
• Examples of stereotypies: (in circuses) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq1Yw2ebE0o, at a Basel zoo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmrG2Xr55I 
• An example of how zoo keepers really do care a lot for the animals (re. Galapagos tortoises, in this case): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXljBRVIO1w 
• We're not focusing on circuses, but there's lots of videos about these kinds of things...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wjb3HjAYUY&feature=related 
• On the San Diego Zoo's california condor restoration efforts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ootHa9RX4CM 
• Video rendition of (the gist of) a well-known essay by John Lilly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6z4BUUR1Y 
• On the victims of war--claimed Israeli attack on a zoo in Gaza (I don't know all the details here, to be honest): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9vhmaqAEHA (Some news coverage: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june162009/idf_zoo_kill_gaza_6-16-09.php) (and some accompanying propaganda, of course....: http://www.americanfreepress.net/Supplements/NEW_Gaza_Zoo_Color_Flyer.pdf)

Animal Law

• PBS Newshour clip on recent Supreme Court case on depictions of animal cruelty in crush videos, U.S. v. Stevens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVSTkhcGxgE, and the ACLU's take on the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xUyviw6zY (the ruling is available here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-769.pdf)
• Overview of the case in context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belnNgDBSx0&feature=fvw 
• Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) debate on 'animals as legal persons': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H38y2ZkwHaw&feature=channel 
• Video from a pet trust attorney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0DM-Q-ku34 
• Handy overview, if a bit awkward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn1c3sX4qnw 
• Humane Legislative Fund's (HSUS's legal arm) "Humane Scorecard": http://www.hslf.org/humanescorecard/ 
• A talk by judge Richard Posner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJlR51GQepg 
• Speaking of out-of-context character assassination...a piece on Cass Sunstein (with admittedly controversial views!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoiHIbwRhSo, a slightly longer clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJ8VXYdBrg 
• ALDF link on animal law courses: http://aldf.org/userdata_display.php?modin=51 
• On the distinction (and confusion) of the common law / civil law difference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyw15BRNn-Q 
• What is a SLAPP suit?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMCPBhId0Z4 
• On the topic of Wills and Trusts: Leona Helmsley and an article by Jeffrey Toobin: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/29/080929fa_fact_toobin 

Endangered Species Act

• The text of the 1973 ESA: http://epw.senate.gov/esa73.pdf 
• ESA in current (oil spill) context: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/esa-overhaul/ (see also: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/07/27/27greenwire-lawsuit-seeks-stringent-endangered-species-ana-54415.html)
• Balancing firefighting with endangered species: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipFlqkTUvokCu7_AzpFJSB89ZZDgD9H8B0O00 
• Defenders of Wildlife ESA portal: http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/policy_and_legislation/endangered_species_act/ 
• An endangered species-focused NGO, the Endangered Species Coalition: http://www.stopextinction.org/ 
• US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ESA portal: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/ 
• US Secretary of the Interior wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior 
• On the Massachusetts ESA: http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/regulatory_review/mesa/mesa_home.htm 
• Overview of the ESA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTcenE5sG3Q 
• On frogs' role as a sentinel species: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lWQLd5U0g8 
• Coverage of the recent CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP) in Qatar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWi-iyrDAo 
• Penn and Teller on endangered species: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSY1HbpzTjM 
• "Behind the Green Curtain: Environmentalism versus Property Rights": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs4ikdI1GCg&feature=channel 
• "The Biodiversity Fraud": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WC8wW_2_c 
• "Green Gone Wild - Elevating Nature Above Humans": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu6oCbIS5g8 
• "America in Crisis" (similar to the previous three...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8XMrmaIpBk 
• "Impact of ESA" (on property rights): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5uGSHvXfRA 
• On the political fallout of the California water crisis, the ESA, and the Delta Smelt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF9M6yX3yMQ&feature=related 
• "Defenders of Wildlife lawsuit against BP": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5kLrrzPus 
• Bald Eagle delisting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLHywgWJuKk 
• This is how to oversimplify predator reintroduction policy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVxv92iX0rY 

Navy Sonar and Whales

• One kind of response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcKArYkq9rs 
• A similarly angry 'environmentalists hate America' view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2KCSBEF2s 
• "NRDC to take its sonar fight to the Supreme Court": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gy54vzgSI 
• "Lethal Sonar": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57jshn7qpss 
• "Sonar Victims": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpLUx2d_qU 
• "Sonar and Whales" (the govt's take): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxLaXmVX6QA  
• More on regulating ocean noise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOeKP7ixryk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IckY44UE4A4 
• On beaked whales: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtEHjPb18ps 

Public Policy

• Maxwell Stearns on public choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfuuqz_veo 
• Introducing the prisoner's dilemma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=IotsMu1J8fA&annotation_id=annotation_867313 
• Understanding Nash equilibrium and the prisoner's dilemma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4n-Eg6UAw8&feature=related 
•   On human rights and social movements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfKrfwqHsYI 
• On the role of collective behavior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQXr4hTRHwg 
•  On the policy cycle: http://www.stats.govt.nz/sitecore/content/population/Home/tools-and-resources/policy-development-cycle.aspx, http://www.peopleandparticipation.net/display/ProcessPlanner/Using+Your+Results, http://www.geostrategis.com/p_policy.htm 
• A very basic but handy overview on 'what is public policy?': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoNNIPC0Euc&feature=related 

On social capital and social movements

• Bowling Alone website: http://www.bowlingalone.com/
• Facebook and social capital video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTL8PBomUE
• Clay Shirky at TED, 'How social media can make history': http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html
• Seth Godin at TED, on 'the tribes we lead': http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
• Social capital as viewed through the cartoons of Pierre Bourdeau: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPQ-xOLSSE (this is an overly simplistic view of social capital...but is meaningful nonetheless) 
• "How to create a grassroots movement using social networking sites": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpULpHpFmo 

Other Links

• Onion video I mentioned on animal testing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7J7UjsRqg 
• On cannibalism...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeVovHw1RY&feature=related 
• Recent NOVA episode on wildlife rehabilitation and marine mammal welfare: http://video.pbs.org/video/1051884361/ 
• Speaking of the concept of pain...'a pain gun': http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Raytheon-Microwave-Gun-Recalled-Amidst-Controversy-4372 
• On human-wildlife conflict: Geese control in US vs. Britain: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife-under-aerial-attack-2030311.html 
• On Maus: https://yareviews.wikispaces.com/Maus+Review+3 
• On freeganism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism 
• On the effects of eutrophication (as discussed on Thursday): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/evil-weed-in-baltic-sea-puts-marine-life-at-risk-2033399.html 
• To be entirely honest, I'm really not sure what to make of this ('beer to be sold in dead animals'): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7904698/Beer-to-be-sold-in-dead-animals.html 
• And in other news: a parasailing donkey: http://www.mn.ru/russia/20100723/187947742.html 
• More on 'goosegate': http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Giggling-and-Fuming-at-Governments-Goose-Extermination-4442, http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Best-Tweets-Gunning-for-Geese-Edition-4444 
• Interesting food show on PBS: http://www.grist.org/article/food-the-time-is-ripe-for-food-forward-tv-show/ 
• An interesting online debate on zoos: http://www.volconvo.com/forums/science-technology/16184-animals-should-not-kept-zoos.html 
• Wiki site on zoos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo 
• Catalonia to ban bullfighting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10784611 
• On a recent bear attack: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/28/montana.bear.attack/index.html?hpt=T2
• "whale struck by a cruise ship": http://www.adn.com/2010/07/28/1385612/whale-found-stuck-on-bow-of-cruise.html 
• "The Witness" (documentary on fur farming I mentioned in my email): http://vimeo.com/5209895 
• A short sustainable ag documentary: http://vimeo.com/12701726 
• Humane Legislative Fund's (HSUS's legal arm) "Humane Scorecard": http://www.hslf.org/humanescorecard/ 
• In other (year-old) legal news, "vegans sue for cancer warning on hot dogs": http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/23/business/fi-hot-dog23 
• On law and food (recent but tangential): http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Federal-Judges-vs-Chipotle-Experience-1722 
• A very recent animal cruelty law case from San Diego: http://www.10news.com/news/24434216/detail.html 
• "Poisoning rhino horns to keep poachers away": http://tinyurl.com/rhinohorns 
• On stakeholder analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeholder_analysis 
• Google image search results: http://tinyurl.com/stakeholderanalysis 
• It's shark week!: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-08-02-waiter-theres-some-fin-in-my-soup/ , http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10848165 
• "pets helped humans evolve": http://www.newser.com/story/97164/pets-helped-humans-evolve.html 
• German shepherds used in war with PTSD-like symptoms: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_re_us/us_ptsd_military_dogs 
• on the census of marine life: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,709907,00.html
• Caught on CCTV: http://www.newser.com/story/97328/owner-gets-jail-for-vicious-attack-on-dog.html 
• "stimulus funding cocaine for monkeys?": http://video.foxnews.com/v/4302140/stimulus-funding-cocaine-for-monkeys 
• Sarah Palin's new animal of choice: "mamma grizzlies": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsUVL6ciK-c
• Gray wolf to be relisted on the ESA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/08/AR2010080802773.html?hpid=artslot 
• Another good example of two distinct frames to a current story: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Tree-Huggers-Conservatives-Worry-About-Puberty-1787