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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Meanwhile, on Chongming island, I rescued a Northern Shoveler which got caught in one of these evil, almost invisible strings that the farmers use to protect their fields from hungry birds. Did the bird thank me? Did it f*ck.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. The point is that even hunters seem to think that they need a reason to justify killing these animals.