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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

10,000 Birds

However, it is only a short taxi ride away from the airport where most travelers will arrive at – better to see birds instead of just eating fast food while waiting for a connecting flight. While birds have developed one way of dealing with gravity, flying, other animals have found different ways, for example, just ignoring it.

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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Unfortunately, the book does not seem to mention the Grandala despite having a section on blue color in animals. Higher up on the Balangshan pass, Yellow-billed Choughs (Alpine Chough) benefit from the local fast food available for sale there, along with the limited environmental consciousness of some of the tourists.

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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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By destroying the health of baboons with fast food. Fast food is bad for you? And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums.

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Komen and KFC: A Match Made in Hell

Critter News

Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. It's not just a question of animal rights. It's fast food and it is unhealthy. The more fattening food you eat, the more money goes to cancer research. Komen Foundation.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

.: One message is that there's nothing wrong with eating animals, and in fact it's fantastic and thrilling and a win-win-win (people-planet-profits) when you eat animals that were "produced" by Polyface Farms. We eat animals, and the CAFO system is an evil, filthy, cruel one, but it doesn't have to be that way.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

Animal Person

You can't pull the god card to claim superiority over the rest of us so you demonize the consumption of animal products. You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. You're hypocrites essentially, and the worst kind in my opinion.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

A great number of animals owe their lives to our intention to eat them. If we value animal life and animal comfort, therefore, we should endorse our carnivorous habits, provided it really is life , and not living death, on which those habits feed.

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