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On "The Wild"

Animal Person

And before any hunter can blurt out "Have you ever seen a deer die of starvation in the woods? We hunters are helping the deer," remember that hunters aren't in the woods looking for exhausted, starving, sickly deer to put out of their misery. It's not pretty. They are looking for healthy, large ones. Besides, we have choices.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: In “ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ” (Op-Ed, Dec. 26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed.

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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

10,000 Birds

This is prohibited under German nature conservation laws and a moral no-go. The summer months are less ideal since even birds matching the size of a roe deer can be difficult to spot in high grass, and more search is needed. This is a roe deer, not a hare. Do NOT walk around the empty buildings trying to see/flush them!

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J. Baird Callicott on Misanthropy

Animal Ethics

The biospheric perspective does not exempt Homo sapiens from moral evaluation in relation to the well-being of the community of nature taken as a whole. The preciousness of individual deer, as of any other specimen, is inversely proportional to the population of the species.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Is this moral? He says of this behavior, “It was a moral raven seeking the human equivalent of justice, because it defended the group’s interest at a potential cost to itself.&#. He often tried to approach them as if they were friends.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. .&# And then you seem to have no tolerance of a voice that that has a different viewpoint. It is OK for people to like to hunt. This proposed hunting season will clearly not impact the eastern population of sandhill cranes.

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