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Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism

Animal Ethics

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. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth).

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

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. 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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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

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. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Historic recruitment rates of all migratory sandhill crane populations range from 7.5%

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