Swimming in a Fish Bowl

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Swimming in a Fish Bowl

goldfish pond

One of the main benefits of travel is learning what life is seeing for yourself that there are many different ways to exist. It can be hard, though, to know how much of your judgement to leave at home, and which values to hold on to wherever you are.

In a country that doesn’t have enough room for all of its people where human rights are not protected, how can we expect them to meet our animal care standards? At the same time, an animal in distress is no less distressing for that knowledge.

I knew better than to visit a zoo in China. But when you’re traveling with a 10-year-old, it’s nearly impossible to pass up a zoo. It was as bad as I expected. Even the goldfish pond was overcrowded.

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Forbidden Panda | gemma D. alexanderPosted on5:38 pm - Jan 19, 2020

[…] the low standards that so distressed me at the zoo in Qingdao, I got in trouble for using flash near the pandas. I didn’t mean to […]

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