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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. Or pig, or duck, or fish. product that comes from an animal ). The theory is sound. There's no way out. I must confess I’ve been having a hard time.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

The government, which is currently lead by the right-wing National Party, has said that the legislation will not open up national parks, world heritage sites, ecological reserves or the like. A duck farmed in a factory is part of nature as much as one that grew up on a pond, even if the particulars of its ecosystem are different.

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The Nature of the Meadowlands: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. Fortunately, the book starts with an introduction to the places that comprise the 30.4

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

In Part 2, I will discuss and defend these claims, but here in Part 1, I want examine the real motivation for the Act, as well as the rhetoric that allowed such chilling legislation to sail through both houses of Congress. See the Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis here for details.] On November 4, 2005, Rep. The Senate Bill S.