Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

Of course , I say to myself, language is worth fighting for. Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals. --would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that). Won't the battle always be won by common usage/the majority?

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Animal Rights For Animals Rights HSUS 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. Quick: what’s this? Photo used by permission of Arthur M. Peslak, Nature Images by Art Did you hesitate in calling that a sandhill crane?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Which, of course, is entirely wrong. Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. The eye candy was the bonus, like the dessert served before the main course. They’re Back! Very glad you like it.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Those two questions are not mutually exclusive. Why migrate? Lots of birds do not fly at all, or don’t fly very much.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 205

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

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