10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

Look at the Maryland-based website Crow Busters , although I warn you you’ll need a strong stomach for the photographs. Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Why do they do this?

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2010

Ticks may be transferred to humans. Be aware of areas where Lyme disease (a common tick-borne illness) is prevalent: the eastern coastal states and the north central states, especially parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin and northern California.

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Pets Rhode Island Maryland Delaware 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.

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Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. She teaches anthropology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA, and lives in Maryland with her husband and not nearly enough pets. But that makes her sound awfully stuffy. I’ve hit an all-time low.

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West Virginia Birds Chickens Maryland 101

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In my earlier post "Children and Heart Disease" available here , I noted that, in the seventh and final edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: A Handbook for Parents of the Developing Child from Birth to Adolescence , Dr. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age. The answer is "Yes."

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40