Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. If they want what's best for lobsters, they should be advocating for not killing and eating them at any restaurant (and then I guess the question becomes: why stop at lobsters).

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

First of all, I would like to thank Keith for inviting me to be a part of this blog. Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong. I simply believe that when animals are killed it ought to be for a good purpose, and in a manner that is respectful to their capacity to suffer.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Would it be morally permissible for you to kill some people and eat them? For nonvegetarians the choice is easy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. But, we’re facing a world of shrinking biodiversity and depressingly-high bird kill numbers that demand an accounting outside of our self interest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. I.e., will a lack of, or reduced, winter kill-offs of parasites affect these birds? We should be expecting sea level rise. ” GL: Aha.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

If you are suffering from depression, you just have found another reason to go birding. The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys. Evil people in Southern China catch the bird and eat it.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

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. I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It seems they did well this year, with quite a few chicks being taught how to handle dragonflies, while the parents were suffering from molt. The species that prevented the month from being really boring was the Amur Paradise Flycatcher. In other news: juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron posing as guardian to something (the underworld?)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds.

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