10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. 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.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Some people cut back on animal products, some eliminate one at a time, some ditch it all upon watching Earthlings (and I'd love to know if they watched it in one sitting, but no one has volunteered that information) or reading Eating Animals. But we can be there, consistently, with an answer, an explanation, a resource, or a meal.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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. One cannot produce eggs or dairy products on a large scale without the wholesale exploitation of animals.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 27, 2011

What is the optimal temperature for food production? I wish scientists would inform the public of all the consequences of global warming, so that the public can decide for itself whether to expend its scarce resources in preventing it. Would there be more food rather than less if the globe warmed? Change per se is neither good nor bad.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

milk production. It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values. It does not seem to be true in general that one is inconsistent if one uses a product that is produced by some process that one believes violates one’s moral principles. This advertising created a need; it did not fill any need.

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