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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.

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J. Baird Callicott on Wild Life

Animal Ethics

The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants. as is the humane ethic.

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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

10,000 Birds

Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. Knowledge is knowing that a bird is a dinosaur. Sometimes the exceptions are spectacular.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. How can people say they care about animals while seemingly ignoring the existence of the wild ones that have been there for thousands of year?