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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. This makes it much harder for people to have empathy for snakes, even though snakes have retained all the biological features that are important to consider for animal ethics (just like turtles and lizards).

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

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Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. All animals would be kept in battery conditions and the righteous vegetarians would exert no economic pressure on farmers to change their ways. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly.

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From Today's New York Times

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April 21, 2008 To the Editor: Re “ Million-Dollar Meat ” (editorial, April 23): In vitro meat might not appeal to everyone, but I am guessing that the day PETA awards its prize money will be a happy day for the billions of land animals bound for slaughter. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof’s column broke my heart. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D. But one consequence that Mr.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother. (Dr. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. Breast milk not only contains nutrients, but also antibodies that bolster the baby's immune system.

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