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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

Black Francolin – one of several hundred birds with black in its name OK, nearly all of the people who had birds named after them were white, often rich and typically colonialists, army officers or explorers, but there’s hardly a dull person among them, and all were products of their time.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The exploiter/developer pays.

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R. G. Frey on the Principle of the Equal Consideration of Interests

Animal Ethics

Interests arise, Singer contends, from the capacity to feel pain, which he labels a 'prerequisite' for having interests at all; and animals can and do suffer, can and do feel pain. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

Animal Ethics

But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur." One of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?" Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?" Not according to my students. you might wonder.

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