10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

With those caveats in mind, I took up Dale Peterson’s The Moral Lives of Animals with hope and not a little trepidation. After all, the behaviors we know as “morals&# do make it much easier to live in the groups we humans find ourselves in, and have been forced to adapt as the kinds of groups we live in change.

Morals 107

Morals Animal Humane Research 107

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Notes are on the other hand well-worth reading, including documentation of the text and additional comments, even more stories, by Birkhead. The Index lists names, places, birds (by complete common name), and most of the book’s subjects (conservation, cruelty, extinction, morality, but ‘god’ is limited to animal gods).

Dissection 208

Dissection Birds Research Europe 208

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

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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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged.

Lifestyle 100

Lifestyle Vegan Vegetarian New York Times 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

Birds 114

Birds North America Breeding America 114

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. The question arises: Why should such indirect causal influence have any moral import?

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Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40