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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

Animal Person

Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. So the ban isn't being suggested because eating cats and dogs is wrong, but because it's creating conflict.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

10,000 Birds

One of my most vivid memories of watching The Sopranos – still the best TV series ever, in my opinion – is Tony outside barbecuing, occasionally turning the different pieces of meat. On a side note, the bird is also kind of ugly, so maybe the chicks never seeing their father has a certain protective function.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. How far do we go in protecting them? Indeed, many paleoanthropologists maintain that the evolution of the large, energy-hungry human brains depended on a transition of our ancestors’ diets to include meat. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov. Whose lot could that possibly help?

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

10,000 Birds

There was a story this morning that did make my blood freeze, and it had nothing to do with four big cats biting the bullet. The elimination of vultures had its own knock on effects, such as the increase in feral dogs (now that there was more meat available for them) and corresponding increase in rabies.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?” ” one.

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Jonathan Bennett on Revisable Morality

Animal Ethics

Many people exclude animals from moral consideration, even though they would never think to neglect, much less harm, a dog or a cat. Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced. It is natural to feel sympathy for animals who are suffering. Have you taken the time to investigate this?

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Adopt A Turkey!

4 The Love Of Animals

Here at Farm Sanctuary, we live with turkeys, so we know they are interesting and intelligent and have complex emotional lives like dogs, cats and other animals. Sadly, the meat industry subjects turkeys to intolerable cruelty and treats them like inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities.

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