Animal Rights

Today at Enrich we did a P4C workshop about Animal Rights. We talked about if animals should be tested on and we also talked about the movie 'Babe' in which a pig is taken away from it's parents to a farm where it will get killed. Firstly, when we talked about animals being tested on, everyone said it was horrible and shouldn't be done.  We also watched a couple of clips from the movie 'Babe' and that was when we talked about how Babe shouldn't have been taken from their parents. After all that we discussed about how animals are mistreated by lots of owners.

Thinker's Keys

Today at Enrich we learnt about three of the Thinker's Keys. The two that I had time for were the Variation Key and the Ridiculous Key. The Variation Key is about listing different uses for something or ways to do something, such as how to keep dry in the rain. The Ridiculous Key is when you list the good or bad things about random topics that would never work, hence the name ridiculous. Looking forward to dissecting an eyeball next week.

Sea Shepherd Guest Talk

Today at Enrich we had a guest in to speak with us about Japenese Whaling. This guest was Grant from Sea Shepherd. He told us about the different types of Japanese Whaling ships, the different Sea Shepherd ships and the way they stop the Japanese from Whaling in protected zones. First of all, the Japanese are Whaling in a protected area called the Southern Whale Sanctuary. This zone means you cannot go Whaling in that area, but since it is in International Waters, no one can arrest them for illegal Whaling. and that's where Sea Shepherd come in. They are an Anti Whaling group that stop the Japanese from making Whales extinct. The Sea Shepherd fleet contains the Steve Irwin, which is the mothership, the Bob Barker, which is the main ship and the Brigitte Bardot, which is the fastest of their boats, because it is fiberglass and designed for racing. This year, Sea Shepherd is starting a new mission called 'Operation Zero Tolerance' which is their mission where they hope to stop the Japanese from Whaling completely in the Southern Whale Sanctuary. The operation started on the 5th of November.