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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. Frantic search – Peter is even running by the canal, scanning the fields occasionally.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease.

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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?

Critter News

In my opinion, and I am a vegetarian, the second definition of humane is the MINIMAL that we should expect. And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., Animals are raw materials to process for product. You are not processing their wellbeing, but their carcasses for meat.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." Yet he spends time describing the miserable deaths of day-old male chicks and understands what happens in dairy production, and I assume he doesn't partake of anyone's eggs or milk. But why does he say "vegetarian?"

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On Keeping "Vegan" Pure

Animal Person

Maybe sugar processed with bone char isn't worth boycotting a restaurant over. Or bake some vegan cookies for a vegetarian friend who's convinced that she cannot survive without eggs and butter. And they're all pretty obvious. As for the less obvious (gelatin in tires? Maybe it is.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. These farmers work long hours moving animals from pasture to pasture and often struggle with a paucity of meat-processing infrastructure suitable to the needs of small-scale producers. Kristof’s column.