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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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

Animal Ethics

By forgoing meat in our diets, we can reduce, if not eliminate, this massive suffering of animals, merely through bringing market forces to bear upon factory farming. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Once one bears in mind that it is this comparative assessment that is required, then it seems to me there will be a strong case (1) for Humane Slaughter, and humane treatment prior to slaughter, and (2) insofar as really painless and comfortable animal-raising is not attained or attainable, giving vegetarianism a try, at least.

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“Condors over Cologne” – Rogue Ales & Spirits: Condor Kolsch

10,000 Birds

After a slow start, enough chicks had been hatched and raised by 1991 to allow for the release of captive-bred condors in the wild in California. So, after bearing with that admittedly lengthy lecture on Cologne and its beer, let’s return to the condor. With enough room for another, of course.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

After meeting the woman of his dreams, he moved to Austria where he now has the coolest job in the world making awesome toys for birders ( Swarovski Optik product manager ). to have and raise children. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry.

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