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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide. Chickens deserve to live humanely. That’s the least farmers can do.

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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

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Battery Pt. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Big Egg Marsh. 05 Jan 2016. 06 Jan 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Battery Pt. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Big Egg Marsh. 05 Jan 2016. 06 Jan 2016.

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