Thu.Jan 16, 2014

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According Animals Dignity

Animal Ethics

'In this New York Times op-ed column , Frank Bruni predicts that our understanding of and concern for animals is only going to grow as scientific advances help us to understand the rich psychological and emotional lives of animals. Tom Regan was right: Many of the animals we routinely exploit are experiencing subjects of a life just like us.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of January 2014?

10,000 Birds

'Oh to be under blue skies in Estonia … Most of us in the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere tend to come together in support of at least one cliche, that of the White Christmas. This is to say that, unless inclement weather scuttles your meticulously calibrated travel plans, a blanket of snow makes the holidays more merry. But once December is naught but a memory invoked by exorbitant credit card bills, we who live under the oppression of frigid winter separate into two camps.

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