Challenging the Left’s glaring indifference toward nonhuman animals, our panel seeks to explode the myth of human cognitive superiority by examining animal intelligence through analysis and anecdote. That human intelligence is superior to animal intelligence, that animals do not reason, do not deliberate, that they lack any true language and communicate mostly by grunts or cries, navigating blindly by a faculty we call “instinct”—these are examples of commonly held tenets the refutation of which would in principle—as our panel hopes to—knock out a crucial portion of anthropocentric prejudice.

Karen Davis will discuss “Seven Earthly Reasons Why Social Justice Advocacy Should Include Birds”