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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

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Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.

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Animal Ethics

Since our food is delivered to us on a bun or in big bags of frozen parts, it’s easy to eat it and not think about what it was or how it was killed. Jules L Garel Columbus, Ohio, July 31, 2008 As a country, we place so little value on the creatures that give up their lives to satisfy our hunger.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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Although knowledge of its existence dates back to writings made by Christopher Columbus in the 14th century, we know relatively little about this bird’s biology, ecology, and historical distribution. This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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In A Feathered River Across the Sky , Joel Greenberg quotes the experience of the residents of Columbus, Ohio in 1855: “Now everyone was out of the houses and stores, looking apprehensively at the growing cloud, which was blotting out the rays of the sun. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest.

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