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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? There is little that is less polluting and less harmful to the planet than hunting wild game responsibly. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being?

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. Soo…if all the cranes look white in a light regime like this, how does an excited gunman tell which one is the endangered one?

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

Let the games begin. All we do as vegans is take a reality--the reality of the sentience of cats, dogs, horses, chickens, sheep, cows, etc. He is letting his attachment to eating animals and his attachment to his constituents profiting from their slaughter cloud his decision making. What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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