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Forgotten Prairies

10,000 Birds

Ferruginous Hawks are native to our western short-grass prairies and their diet comprises almost completely of prairie dogs. Well, the ongoing issues of land development, sport shooting, and the rancher’s war on these animals keeps prairie dog populations from ever booming. Not too bad eatin’, huh?

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Searching for vultures in India

10,000 Birds

The tour organizer was Arpit Deomurari, whom I met on Facebook a few weeks earlier. Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. The sudden collapse of the natural animal disposal system in India has had multiple consequences. And we cried: Vultures!

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly.