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Fear Of The Dark

10,000 Birds

I though her to be a silent type, perhaps tired of flying and jet lag, but it never ever occurred to me that my female guest may be worried when passing closed and abandoned communist era factories. had every right to feel worried, with or without a reason. That would have been the last thing to come to my mind.

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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

10,000 Birds

If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. I had also not seen any Common Kingfisher for more than 2 months, a situation that is generally being frowned upon by human rights lawyers. The Red-billed Starling is more common in Shanghai.

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It allows you to swoop in with an alternative to the disgraceful human behavior that is factory farming and provide a kindler, gentler way to partake of the flesh of others. It's just not right.