Gorilla Warfare: The Animal-Prison/Industrial Complex | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

April 13, 2013

“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”

- Carl Sagan

The role of the corporate media is to normalize the daily -- hourly -- violence and hierarchy inherent within the dominant culture. For example: speciesism. Corporate news outlets work around the clock to keep the human/non-human privilege alive yet unexamined.

Case in point: On April 1, 2013, N. R. Kleinfield of the New York Times penned a predictably ill-informed and agenda-reinforcing piece called, “A Child Star With a Knack for Publicity,” about the death a western lowland gorilla (a species classified as “critically endangered”) who was born behind bars within the Central Park Zoo.

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Some of what the media purposely omits when reporting on zoos: Zoos serve to reduce genetic diversity and do not contribute to increasing robust animal populations in the wild.

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The gorilla named “Pattycake,” we’re told, “long reigned as one of the city’s more acclaimed tourist attractions.” She died “peacefully, in her sleep.”

Counterpoint: Confined beings, by definition, do not live or die peacefully, but the Times very much wants us to sleep peacefully -- never questioning or even acknowledging what is done in our name.

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