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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. Take the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. With no permanent habitation inside its boundaries, human disturbance is low.

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CA Wildlife Official Photographed with Dead Mountain Lion

Critter News

Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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On Surreal Lobster Advocacy

Animal Person

My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane." The ARFF want us to write letters to the editor of the Post.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. Who would have thought that a post defending hunting game in general would have not been universally acclaimed? The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives.

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On Winning Free Vegan Producst. and Twilight

Animal Person

The idea is to cultivate discussion in the forum in order to better suit visitors needing help from people like you on going vegan or understanding animal rights. Evidently I'm a bit late to the game. The good ones have chosen not to "feed" on humans, but the bad ones haven't. How does this work?

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! All of them had successfully learned the skills we taught them to forage in “safe&# areas and avoid humans. I think not!

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare.