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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The same goes for pigs and cattle that are exploited and forced to live in substandard conditions. Chickens deserve to live humanely. That’s the least farmers can do. People seem to lose sight of the fact that these are sentient animals, not food machines! Congratulations to California for being so compassionate and leading the way.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Battery Pt. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Big Egg Marsh. US-NC-Creswell-808 Spruill Town Rd W – 35.8355x-76.4209. 05 Jan 2016. Red-throated Loon – Gavia stellata. Rockaway Beach–Edgemere (Beach 32nd-56th St.). 06 Jan 2016. and Lighthouse. 10 Aug 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

Battery Pt. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Big Egg Marsh. US-NC-Creswell-808 Spruill Town Rd W – 35.8355x-76.4209. 05 Jan 2016. Red-throated Loon – Gavia stellata. Rockaway Beach–Edgemere (Beach 32nd-56th St.). 06 Jan 2016. and Lighthouse. 10 Aug 2016.

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