10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
The temptation is even stronger for popularizers, who have to condense and choose a focus that will appeal to the book-buying public. With those caveats in mind, I took up Dale Peterson’s The Moral Lives of Animals with hope and not a little trepidation. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11). Yes, you read that right.)
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Animal Person
JUNE 27, 2009
The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. Then they yank the heads, slit the throats, and de-feather and gut the chickens. They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2019
Few hobbies place such value on the written knowledge contained in books as does birding. Birders cherish and hoard books above all other trappings of the pastime, and rather than relegating these tomes to the home library or study, they’re routinely carried out-of-doors as constant and dog-eared companions in field and forest.
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