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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

10,000 Birds

She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. How it raised its chicks? The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.