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Happy Global Big Day from Costa Rica!

10,000 Birds

It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? This call to massive birding was known as the Global Big Day and it was meant to be the first of many GBDs to come.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. All animals would be kept in battery conditions and the righteous vegetarians would exert no economic pressure on farmers to change their ways. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly.

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