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10,000 Birds

The day started out with some typical monsoon-season cloudiness, so my first photos suffered a bit from low lighting. As I learned this week, locals cook the unripe fruit into meat dishes, and eat the ripe fruit raw… as do birds!

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How to ‘treat’ your cat right

4 The Love Of Animals

Just like people, pets that are not treated right can suffer from stress and other health problems, and an inadequate diet, for example, will make cats more prone to infections and illnesses. In recipes where food is to be baked, for example, make sure the food is thoroughly cooked and therefore safe to eat. Options for treats.

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Deliciously Vegan!

Animal Ethics

Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factory farm conditions. Life without meat seems unbearable to them.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. None of these assumptions seems plausible.

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Think Vegan Food Must Be Boring and Bland? Think Again!

Animal Ethics

Animals raised in factory farms are treated so horribly that only a person devoid of sympathetic understanding could fail to be outraged by the unnecessary suffering these animals are forced to endure. People who have eaten meat and dairy products their entire lives, often simply can't imagine what vegans eat. Watch out Emeril!

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

If you currently eat meat, make a commitment to reduce your consumption of animals in January and stop eating them altogether in February. Switching to a vegan diet devoid of meat and animal products also almost always results in significantly lower plasma cholesterol levels. Free Fat-free vegan recipes can be found at Fatfree Vegan.

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Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!

Animal Ethics

Moderately to seriously overweight people who eliminate all meat and all animal products from their diets and replace those animal-based foods with plant-based foods almost always lose 10-20 pounds with no other behavioral changes. I recommend trying to accomplish sub-resolutions (a), (b), and (c) next.

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