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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). Thanks a lot.

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

10,000 Birds

They argue for the elimination of free-range cats entirely. Attitudes change over time, Marra and Santella say, and with proper education about these “unrelenting killers and cauldrons of disease” the public may come to view pet ownership as one Auburn University professor quoted in this book does: “as a privilege, not a right.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitators vs. Bird Thieves

10,000 Birds

The nighttime version of this occurred at Louise Shimmel’s Cascades Raptor Center in Oregon, when her education director took their Barn Owl to the flight cage for some exercise. While I was getting him acclimated to go in the outdoor flight, he had free range of my studio.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

Many people of no great education and of no prestigious social position certainly belong to my envisaged moral elite. Moreover at present I see no moral objection to eating the flesh of free range cattle, which seem to me to have a happy life which they would not have at all if they were not destined to be eaten.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt.,

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

When I started blogging, I thought that if more people sought out free-range, grass-fed "beef," more animals would be saved/fewer would be created. Obviously (I think), education is the key. Lesson #15 It's okay to change your mind. See " On Measuring Success " for more on that). And this leads me to the related.

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