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CRUELTY AND ABUSE CAN RESULT FROM INFANTILISING ANIMALS
By Taylor Waters, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and Farm Animal Advocacy Staff Attorney, Animal Law & Policy Institute at Vermont Law & Graduate School This past July, in Kenya, I visited an elephant orphanage. As the keepers described how each calf had arrived (mothers shot by poachers, families scattered by drought or conflict, etc.) the crowd around me lifted their phones. People called out and angled for selfies while the keepers bottle-fed milk to animals who had, quite literally, lost everything. Staff did not respond to the tourists or remind visitors that only caretakers may interact with the calves. Occasionally they did note that the goal is reintegration to…


