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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal. I visited the factory a few years ago, and the quality control there is now first class. (I The Leica had good optics and was light and compact, but wasn’t robust, and bits fell off.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. Not always terrible – ok if you are in business class, or you catch it yourself. So, the local spa for Tristam’s Buntings … … and for Yellow-browed Bunting will probably stay open.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Women’s hats, specifically, a significant sartorial symbol of class and status in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women.

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Vegetarianism and IQ

Animal Ethics

The study also found that: "IQ remained a statistically significant predictor of being vegetarian as an adult after adjustment for social class (both in childhood and currently), academic or vocational qualifications, and sex." Given that belief, they no doubt also believe that it is wrong to knowingly contribute to unnecessary suffering.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

Animal Ethics

According to the HSUS press release, HSUS revealed earlier this week that Burlington Coat Factory was falsely advertising real fur garments as faux fur in newspaper circulars, on its web site, and in store displays at its 350 locations nationwide. Macy's is not alone in misrepresenting the materials used in making its coats. But is it really?

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