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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sue Coe, Baboon Heart Transplant, 1985

Baboon Heart Transplant, 1985

Mixed media and collage on paper
52 x 77 in (132.1 x 195.6 cm)
© Sue Coe
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The clear speciesism of valuing one species over another, denies the interconnected web of life. The unintended consequences, in the search for knowledge or new areas of the natural world...
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The clear speciesism of valuing one species over another, denies the interconnected web of life. The unintended consequences, in the search for knowledge or new areas of the natural world to exploit, are dangerous. The public outrage of these procedures, did not extend to other animals routinely hacked to pieces for human palette pleasure, such as pigs chickens cows. Farmed animals, are not enough like us to have their hearts stolen. If they are enough like us, they still have no rights. We proclaim human intelligence to be morally superior, because we are human. But apart from our self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence. A baboon could say that swinging in the canopy from tree to tree makes them superior. —Sue Coe, 2020
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Literature

Leader Magazine, August 18, 1988, p. 5

Publications

Sue Coe, Mandy Coe, Donald Kuspit and Marilyn A. Zeitlin, Police State exhibition catalogue, 1987

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