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Birding Shanghai in May 2022

10,000 Birds

The lyrics are rather clever, with references to XTC (“ Making plans for Nigel “) and Jean-Paul Satre (“ Hell is other people “). Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat. The male at work.

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The Lady with 700 Cats

4 The Love Of Animals

says Lynea Lattanzio, referring to her mother’s forbiddance of felines in the house. Founder and owner of California’s largest no-cage, no-kill cat sanctuary, Lattanzio lives with more than 700 cats. .&# Now she has more than 700. “I bet she’s sorry now!&#

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. Like any other unnecessary killing of innocent beings, it still wouldn't be humane" (137).

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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

Soon after, Williams retired and moved out of state, and Eric was arrested by the Texas Rangers for a combination of credit card fraud (something about a fake field school for high schoolers in Orange Walk Town) and child abandonment. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase. Photo by Mikebaird.

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Philip E. Devine on the Vegetarian's Dilemma

Animal Ethics

Either the vegetarian argues on utilitarian premises, or he tries to supplement or replace his utilitarianism with some plausible non-utilitarian principles implying the wrongfulness of rearing and killing animals for food. Philip E.