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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

Created by Nancy Brennan, Birdsbesafe looks like a stiff, brightly-colored Elizabethan collar – not the long plastic post-surgical cones that pets occasionally have to wear, but a small donut that fits around the cat’s neck without getting in the way. Will the people who determinedly allow their cats to slaughter wild birds use it?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

22, 2009 The writer teaches philosophy at Southern Methodist University and is the author of the forthcoming “ Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals.” How far do we go in protecting them? 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. 22, 2009 To the Editor: Gary Steiner’s case for veganism founders on the facts. Lawrence S.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

Journal of the American Dietetics Association 109(7), July 2009: 1266-1282.] I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. After several years of confinement and continual reimpregnation on a dairy farm, spent dairy cows are sent to slaughter where they are processed into ground beef.