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

10,000 Birds

Unfortunately, Lowrance doesn’t succeed in synthesizing her material in a way that would raise this biography to the level of ‘definitive.’ Nor, on the other hand, does Lowrance impose the kind of pacing and structure that turns a life into an absorbing narrative.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristof wants animals to be raised for human consumption in the kind and generous manner of his boyhood farm, a way that certainly seems nicer to the animals than mean ol’ modern industrial-style farming. I grew up on a dairy and hog farm in central Massachusetts. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. According to the Newsweek article "Breast on a Plane" just linked-to above, last year Victoria’s Secret would not allow women to breastfeed in their stores in Wisconsin and Massachusetts.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.