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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. If the FWC killed 35 tortoises on video, it would be on mainstream news. " But I'm asking you to consider looking past your emotional bias, and taking a morally logical view of this situation. Of course they would react differently.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison? But chimpanzees can abstract. They have certainly committed no crimes.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly. To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. coli bacteria or food additives.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana. This certainly raises a question of ethics for any birder contemplating a visit; should you hurry to Ghana’s forests and witness the last of this diversity as it is being destroyed or is it better to simply stay away?

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