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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

Thomas Serfass, a professor at Maryland’s Frostburg State University says, “I would describe the North American Model as incomplete. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.” New Ideas In Conservation.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. So, in support of (6), one can offer the following premise: (7) In modern societies, meat consumption is in no way necessary for human survival. Nor ought we kill them without reason.