Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2008

Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. They don't want to contribute to the unnecessary pain, suffering, and death of the animals they eat, but they simply can't imagine life without meat. They realize that factory farming is inhumane.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2021

He was also apparently much disposed to laughter and is often portrayed with his mouth wide open; for this reason, he’s also invoked by sufferers of dental maladies such as toothache. But it’s for the lore concerning the weather on his June 8th feast day that Saint Medardus is best known today, by those who remember him at all.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

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. Their latest effort is their co-authored book The Vegan Joy of Cooking, due out this fall. And appalled they should be.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. But that’s not the most interesting thing I’ve seen recently.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

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.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer? This has all sorts of implications on learning and being more resistant to the mental effects of aging that mammals suffer from. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? What does a Flammulated Owl do all night?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

And, of course, by experimenting with all sorts of new vegan dishes, you will be learning a new healthier way of cooking and eating. For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering. Free recipes can be found at The Vegan Chef and Vegan Connection.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

And, of course, by experimenting with all sorts of new vegan dishes, you will be learning a new healthier way of cooking and eating. For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). We have already seen that Jonathan thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily. What does he think about killing animals?

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