10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 271

Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

No, because their entire business is based on using animals. But there are other scenarios, such as some that PCRM has suggested in the past, that do make sense; where the goal is to alter policy within a company regarding, say, research using animals when that's not required. Would I buy Burger King to do that? goal, even?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 25, 2016

At the personal level, philosophy challenges us as individuals to assess whether our own beliefs, attitudes, and practices are justifiable, with an eye toward abandoning or revising those beliefs and practices found to be unjustifiable.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment New York 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., To secure the philosophical foundation for animal rights requires abandoning utilitarianism. (

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Los Angeles Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever. When there are no animals around to sit on, Cattle Egrets sometimes sit on trees, even though they frequently b h about the trees’ low speed and inability to stir up insects.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

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. Think of the difference between eating a hamburger and eating a veggie burger, for example.

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Vegetarian Hamburgers Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2011

So we took a break from the Betta Experiment because, honestly, I was getting tired of digging fishy graves for them and writing fishy eulogies. We abandoned our house for the safety of my parents’ house on the other side of town. My sons and I have had little luck with Siamese fighting fish. And then came Fighter.

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Fish Veal Seattle Cooking 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

NEW JERSEY – Animal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. Many of these boarding animals are forgotten. There is an estimated 3-4million pets euthanized each year in US animal shelters. Fostering is a wonderful experience.

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