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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

Our small group spent a weekend at the Ferret Research Camp, a cluster of trailers tucked in the middle of a black-tailed prairie dog town and the site, as the name implies, of a black-footed ferret reintroduction program. In the winters the snow lies heavy and researchers travel in and out by small plane.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. Scientific research and expertise are needed here. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.)

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