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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

10,000 Birds

They took it to a bird hospital in Delhi, but were turned away; as the hospital is located behind a Jain temple, so feeding meat to patients was prohibited. “We When a tree filled with nestling Cattle Egrets collapsed, 60 orphans took up temporary residence in the house.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ).

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Searching for vultures in India

10,000 Birds

Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. The disappearance of vultures has allowed other species such as rat and [stray] dog populations to grow.

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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. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. ” one.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? 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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”