Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

His transcendental idealism, at least in morality, ultimately is a political idealism, in which attaining the greatest good is not something that will be accomplished in another world but is a task to be accomplished on this earth. Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. One does not answer problems.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

It's even more offensive than the condescension of believers, who are praying for poor me and my pointless life sans morality. And doubly exciting to see that mainstream America is having debates on national television--on places like Larry King!--about about the eating of animals.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The fury this meal caused my friends and family back in America motivated me to examine whether eating any animal was justified. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. Why was a dog more worthy of not being dinner than a pig?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

There are many of these, survivors of the industrialization of our food supply, in most cities and towns across America. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E. You will enjoy a much better meal and can safely cook it to your preferred doneness, although it will cost more.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? Although we knew that our animals were destined for the tables of America, we were taught by our parents to respect and provide them with creature comfort while they were in our care.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

I hate to remind you, my teaching friends, but in North America we’re as close to the beginning of a new school year as we are to the end of the last one! Summer, by which I mean practical summer as opposed to natural summer, is just about half-over.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Large groups of nighthawks have been seen flying during the day, and other birds that winter in South America are just starting to move through in huge numbers. Counts of anywhere from twenty to eighty Marbled Godwits are standard when birding Chomes or Punta Morales; two of the main shorebird hotspots in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. to a high of 11%. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Yes, the Wild Turkey is North America’s largest game bird. Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the selection of the Bald Eagle as our national bird, calling it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Books about birds are a wealth of written and pictorial information to birders, and an exalted few have become watersheds in the history of ornithological study: Ornithologiae by Francis Willughby, Birds of America by John James Audubon, and Guide to the Birds by Roger Tory Peterson, to name just a few of the most legendary.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Oh yeah, and the serious mega of the day was a dang adult Gray-hooded Gull seen at the shorebird hotspot of Punta Morales! A very rare vagrant to Costa Rica from the Humboldt Current, this beautiful gull has been seen in the Osa, on Cocos Island and at Punta Morales on other occasions, including GBD 2019.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

uses the zoogeographical ecozones and denotes North, Central and South America (Nearctic and Neotropical realms) as western and the rest of the world (Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Australasian) as eastern. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Point Lookout. 18 Feb 2017.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

The Lesser Coucals sometimes try to argue with Chestnut-winged Cuckoos about the morality of having other species raise their chicks (The Lesser Coucal Species Committee also likes to point out that the species neither invaded Ukraine nor ever voted for Donald Trump – they can be a bit boring in insisting on always being on the good side).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. Thank God most human beings have developed a more modern view of wildlife and acknowledge that some animals display sufficient consciousness and self-awareness to deserve moral consideration.

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