Humans have a great capacity to under-value and disrespect our genetic, if residual, inheritance and part of a food chain with other red-blooded mammalian wildlife. This provides us with a dilemma. Descartes claimed that we humans have sufficient brains to command all other wildlife. His maxim ‘I think therefore I am’, does not sit easily with Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’, where humans evolved from the apes that Descartes was so dismissive about. Just as Descartes underestima