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H. J. McCloskey on Punishment of Cruelty to Animals

Animal Ethics

[T]here is another class of cases where the state is accorded the right to interfere with the individual when he is not interfering with any other person, namely, where cruelty to animals is involved.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful. The largest bird, forming the short bar on the right of the bird histogram, is a swan. The following histogram shows the results. This is not a surprise.

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