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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. They will allow the human, if she behaves correctly, to be the junior partner in the hunting enterprise – nothing more.

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Canis Lupus

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times blog post about wolf hunting. While this belief might not compel us to be vegetarians, it does demand significant changes in the way we raise animals for food, and it forbids wolf hunting as a form of entertainment. Why does this belief not "compel us to be vegetarians"? Is meat-eating necessary?

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! "The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Moral Blindness

Animal Ethics

Salt , The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues [London: The Ideal Publishing Union, 1899], 109-10 [italics in original]) The only real cure for the evil is the growing sense that the lower animals are closely akin to us, and have Rights.

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Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

Currently, I am very interested in social and political philosophy and ethical issues. I felt a strong sense of connection to the ideas of Peter Singer while taking Ethics from Keith. Also, I am not a vegetarian, though I attempted to be one last year (an experience I plan on posting about). So, I took the plunge.

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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." But why does he say "vegetarian?" That bothers me, as there's a significant difference in motivation for vegans and vegetarians and he sounds like one, yet calls himself the other. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. This is very silly.

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Philip E. Devine on Demi-Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

And there are many who see nothing wrong with buying meat at a supermarket, while disapproving of hunting even when the resulting meat is eaten by the hunter's family. Devine , "The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism," Philosophy 53 [October 1978]: 481-505, at 502 [footnote omitted])