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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second Weekend of 2011)

10,000 Birds

As promised, I watched Falcons get plucked, pinioned, and debeaked this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sure, I’m likely omitting some other far more important factors involving family, friends, and professional success, but the little things mean a lot.

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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Animal Person

There will be no pies or cakes that were made with milk that was meant for calves, or eggs that represent dead male chicks , forced molting, debeaking and other mutilations and cruelties. Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals.