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On Thanking Slaughtered Sheep for Book Awards

Animal Person

Well, she apparently did such a great job convincing the folks at the Minnesota Book Awards that you can claim to love animals and then send them to slaughter, that not only was she a finalist for their award, but she won it. You won't be part of a kill and disassembly line but you will be killed, one at a time" (159).

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And the book is about much more, ripple effects from what happens when part of a living thing becomes the central ingredient to a highly visual, social, profitable business. I did often wonder while reading the book whether the result equaled the effort. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.

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On Not Eating Animals

Animal Person

Though I haven't been able to surf the Internet that much recently, I have found it difficult to avoid discussion of Foer's book. In fact, both books glorify small farms (though Foer is more selective), and both have the support of people who create and kill animals. Tags: Books Ethics. That has to be good, I tell myself.

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On The Respectful Emperor

Animal Person

That leaves us with animal welfare, which I do think we are genuinely interested in, mostly because of the myriad videos, documentaries, books and websites that have made it tough to avoid over the past few years. Lipka introduced me to the idea of killing "respectfully." People are talking. And acting. That one left me speechless. "My

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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Peter Singer on the Wrongness of Killing Animals

Animal Ethics

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. Instead the argument for vegetarianism is based on the suffering that is, and as far as I can see always will be, associated with the rearing and slaughtering of animals on a large scale to feed urban populations.

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