{"id":2892,"date":"2011-06-28T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T07:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2011-06-28T07:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T07:52:35","slug":"monkeys-anxious-over-immoral-human-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2011\/06\/monkeys-anxious-over-immoral-human-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys Anxious Over Immoral Human Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/media\/images\/Channel4\/c4-news\/JUNE\/27\/27_Monkey_g_k.jpg\" alt=\"monkey freaked\" align=left \/>At a global conference, leading monkeys in Morocco have expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/monkeys-anxious-over-human-behaviour\">anxiety over a range of &#8220;immoral&#8221; human behaviours<\/a>, such as driving cars short distances instead of walking, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Throw-away_society\">throwing fifty per cent of food away<\/a>, consuming billions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/world-of-tech\/power-hungry-gadgets-killing-the-planet-599460\">power-hungry gadgets<\/a> without regard to their overall energy usage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The imminent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/06\/21\/us-oceans-idUSTRE75K1IY20110621\">mass extinctions of fish species<\/a> are causing us almost unbearable nightmares,&#8221; said Professor Ookychok Eeekmeek, who in the past has called for humans to be expelled from earth. &#8220;Humans think we just eat fruit and bananas, but we&#8217;re omnivores just like they are. How are we going to get sardines for our children if there are none left anywhere? We don&#8217;t even have the benefit of spoken language, let alone cash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conference also covered child slavery, the use of rape as a weapon, the harvesting of internal organs from political prisoners, the World Bank, the arms trade, industrial pollution, habitat loss, and humanity&#8217;s insistence on being patronising to all other species, in particular their close cousins, monkeys and higher apes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are shit,&#8221; said Barbara Macaque from Algeria, &#8220;and it&#8217;s about time they accepted that fact and cut us some slack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a global conference, leading monkeys in Morocco have expressed anxiety over a range of &#8220;immoral&#8221; human behaviours, such as driving cars short distances instead of walking, throwing fifty per cent of food away, consuming billions of power-hungry gadgets without regard to their overall energy usage. &#8220;The imminent mass extinctions of fish species are causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[697,696,695],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanophilosophy","tag-human-behaviour","tag-immoral","tag-monkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}