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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

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None of this does justice to the earth, and our unique place in it as a species which has great privileges and also appropriate responsibilities. And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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