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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

Having said that, we expect wind mills to increase in number, and the specific birds that are killed by them may be a particularly sensitive group (i.e. By-catch is the catchy word for animals that are killed from fishing that are not the fish being fished. These are the dolphins in your tuna fish, for example.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

In advocating utilitarianism to a group of people I therefore had to express my feelings and appeal to their feelings. If so, then he is to be excused; but nobody today can think that any particular moral theory has an advantage over the others based on the status it accords animals.

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