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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings!

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

to have and raise children. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? She described in her book “My Journey to Lhasa&# (1927) how, in the rugged mountain of tibet, women were commonly married to 2 men (sometimes brothers), making it easier (or simply possible?) Thanks for visiting!

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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. The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed?

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