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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

If not knowing this information any longer and thus suspecting you might be suffering from dementia, there are always some other animals around to facilitate assisted suicide. Back to birds. The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution.

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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. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders.

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