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How Close Is “Too Close” To An Owl?

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And quite frankly, I’ve seen some of the most dedicated of ethical birders get excited at finding an owl and get closer than they should. So they may seem oblivious to a lumbering human with camera equipment, but that’s only because hiding is how they try to evade predators. It helps if you can understand owl behavior.

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Any other factories on the agenda? How about an ethical adventure ? If you're going to call something an anthropological adventure, it would make sense to teach the kids about the other animals humans eat and give the kids the opportunity to prepare and eat dog, cat and monkey, no? I don't think of that as a restriction.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

But his real agenda comes out later in the graph: "However it is imperative that we allow the most up-to-date scientific data on animal agriculture practices to drive the policy decisions we make, and extract emotion from the equation as much as possible. We give them human names and provide them with the same amenities we enjoy as humans.

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Always Question a Scientist

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And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science. Science does not solve everything. Science itself is made of up of facts, but it is practiced and interpreted by scientists. Are those hands good or evil?

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