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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Yet the turkey she raises is a much smaller factor in advancing global warming than the cattle on her ranch because they produce meat much more efficiently. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. Indeed, in Ms. They also help with pest control. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov.

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The Dracula Bird

10,000 Birds

But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle. The Brown-headed “Bison-birds” learned to be Cowbirds, and expanded their range coast-to-coast, and into almost all of Mexico. Also, as ranchers increasingly moved their free-range cattle into feedlots, they settled down and became incredibly numerous.

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