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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. If you want to address the problem, you do something about the people abandoning and neglecting horses. Financially).

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

There's no "compassion" in the process. A violation of trust or confidence, an abandonment of something committed to one's charge. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. It's cruel. No argument here.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Get yours today!

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Kermie

Animal Person

Before I could even process his presence and figure out what to do, I heard the scrapes of Emily’s paws on her litter box in the guest room bathroom. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language.