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Happy New Year?

10,000 Birds

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. There are also certain psychological advantages.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. But, yes, there are photographs of dead birds and x-ray images of the damage done to individual birds and photographs of the annual FLAP display, as shown below. It’s not a bad idea.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

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The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. DDF will raise the money for the service dog by raffling off a used Jeep that features a custom paint job and custom parts. “We

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Mr. Bittman has some strong answers: evolutionary psychology, convenience and propaganda posing as marketing. Health care skyrockets out of control mainly because we have no convenient access to fresh produce and tasty, humanely raised meat products. Why eat produce that has no flavor? It’s so much easier. Why do we eat so much meat?

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn’t have to pass a test to mate. One question the research of Topál, Hare and others raises is why chimpanzees–who are in most ways much smarter than dogs–lack the ability to read gestures.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? If so, no moral objection based on the killing of animals could be raised to the eating of meat. This brings us to the third attempt at justification. Would it be morally permissible to eat such legs? Would these animals also be exploited?

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine also recommends breast-feeding infants: Breast-feeding is nature's way of meeting the infant's nutritional needs, and also helps boost immunity, not to mention its psychological benefits. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas.

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