Dr Matt Morgan (2023) One Medicine: How Understanding Animals Can Save Your Life.

Start with the bad news. Flipper is dead. He drowned himself (or herself) in a small pool of water. He couldn’t take the isolation. Humans aren’t good at isolating either. We call it loneliness. You remember Flipper? Saturday morning telly. It was a bit like Poirot but without the moustache or French accent. Flipper whistled to say ‘there’s the body over there.’ Or he’d rescue somebody. That seems improbable. But Kevin was relatively lucky. He was ‘freaking out’ and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Hitting water at that speed is like hitting concrete. It shattered his back. Paralysed his muscles. A sea lion kept him afloat for fifteen minutes. Why?   

A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh, ‘Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.’

What would Skippy say? (Another Saturday morning regular). Skippy would do that thing with his mouth and say, ‘I’ve got three fannies. Two are for sex. (Three at a push but no anal, you drongo). One for childbirth.’

A blue whale ejaculates 400 gallons of sperm. When its mum comes into the room, he has to find a whale-sizes hanky to hide his jizz.

What would David Attenborough say? He’s barely alive. But science is great. They did bring seven kids back from the death that drowned. Cold and dead, it seems is not the same as warm and dead. If you’re dying slip inside the freezer.  

‘We have replaced the wild with the tame,’ says Attenborough.

‘We have thought this was our planet. Ninety-six percent of its mass is us and the animals we eat.’

Morgan reminds us that ‘pain is pain.’

We set up concentration camps and torture animals before eating them.

Dr Matt Morgan made a name of himself by writing an open letter to the government in 2020, during the Covid pandemic. He worked in intensive care and saw three patients in a week, aged under thirty, die. He put his and his family’s body on the line.

You may be a Covid denier. I suggest you message Dr Matt Morgan and try out a few of your theories on him.  Read on.

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