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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. Do they suffer any more or less in death? Are they any more or less part of the mysterious unity of life?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy.

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