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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish.

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Collaborative list – October 2021

10,000 Birds

As things appear to be returning to normal, The UK suffered its worst ever week for Covid infections. 184 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 358 Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. 184 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 358 Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. 1 Little Tinamou – Crypturellus soui.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 To the Editor: While Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article demonstrates our folly in oversimplifying solutions to many of our challenges and offers many viable solutions to sustaining our lifestyles in generations to come, she leaves out one very green practice: hunting and fishing. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., Indeed, in Ms.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

10,000 Birds

The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). 26 Nov 2019.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain.

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