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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. By the last year of the war, the US increased its military aid to the Greek Government and introduced a new weapon: the first napalm attack after World War II took place right here! At the edge of the forest, above the road, a Roe Deer swiftly disappears between trees.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

They’re all named for livestock. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of May 2009? Wicked, right? It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. at Princeton University in 1990.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.