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On The Goode Family and Infiltration

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Image via Wikipedia I found The Goode Family disappointing on the vegan side. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Is The Goode Family Good for the Environment? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. Maybe it's me.

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Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, by Christie Palmer Lowrance

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” Nevertheless, Burgess’s overt determination to combine, in his own words, the “teaching of the facts of natural history and the teaching of moral lessons” had long fallen out of fashion by the time I came on the scene. Burgess , is now out from Schiffer Publishing.

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On Food/Lifestyle Disputes At Home

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While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. Problems arise when the individuals in the family (or couple) are at different points in their awareness of actions and purchases that affect the environment.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. To suggest that eating one and not the other represents a conflict of ethics is preposterous. The fury this meal caused my friends and family back in America motivated me to examine whether eating any animal was justified.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?