Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter. The fault does not lie with the deer. DiVincenzo Jr., the county executive. May 5, 2008

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Most of the deer and duck hunters I know lament the loss of an old growth forest or flood-plain swamp as much as I do. Here’s the petition. Likewise for the anglers.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl. Toney Union, N.J., What is greener than forage-fed meat? James Siegel Portland, Me.,

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