10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 246

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Meat Vegetarian Battery Fast Food 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 162

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. Calling an inhumane practice "humane" does not make that practice humane. We can refuse to purchase products of pain deceptively marketed as "humane."

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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Americans systematically exploit and kill animals - sometimes for scientific progress; sometimes for leather jackets, ham sandwiches, or horse-racing. This is part of the piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Chefs place live lobsters in pots of boiling water.

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Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100