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Snowy Owl Ethics

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Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. References. Butcher, A. It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. 1999, Holt et al. Berlanga, H., Kennedy, T.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S., People believe one thing and do another. All day long.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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Even though this referred to a period after the supposed “scavenging” phase, it lent support to the idea of a stepwise evolution of the ability to hunt. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged. Photo by Mikebaird.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

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He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." Of course, the problem here, as in the entire book, is that factory farming is clearly the enemy, while killing animals unnecessarily isn't given any more airtime than Foer's personal, philosophical moments that he doesn't require of anyone else.