Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2008

Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factory farm conditions. If you want to see just how delectable vegan food can be, check out the Walking the Vegan Line blog.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

The sharp strings are a menace to passing birds – especially kites and other raptors – who cannot see them and sometimes suffer grievous, if not fatal, wounds. Unwilling to leave the suffering birds to die, they began bringing them home, asking veterinarians to make house calls, and keeping the recuperating birds on their roof.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity? The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ).

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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. Migratory birds are at particular risk, requiring multiple and specialized habitats to breed, raise their young, migrate and overwinter. We should be expecting sea level rise. ” GL: Aha.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. First, I will raise some questions that usually are not asked, let alone answered, by moral vegetarians. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc.

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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. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

(Even less relevant side note: To my delight, the author has a firmly anti-Trump tone, remarking for example that “A president claims he was being ‘sarcastic’ after, in all seriousness, he raises the possibility of injecting Americans with bleach in order to control a pandemic.”).

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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? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Yes, you do, trust me.

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