10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. In The Hawk’s Way, Montgomery is very good on the ethical dilemmas inherent in falconry, centered on both the bird and the woman, even if she never resolves any of them definitively.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

Here's a hint from the authors: In the end, it's not the grammarians and usage experts who decide what's right. The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animal rights" and "abolition." So who's right?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animal rights. Sounds pretty powerful. What do I choose? All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. One is a huge supporter of animal research. I don't want anything too radical and was thinking about Dominion by Matthew Scully.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

“Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. Photographs, most by co-author Brian E. It’s designed for carrying about in the field, sized 4.5 by 1 by 7.5

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

The ABA’s education programs promote birding skills, ornithological knowledge, and the development of a conservation ethic. Without a clear vision for the future, it seems difficult to search for, let alone hire, the right person. Nevertheless, some criteria will obviously be important.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

There is no inconsistency in rejecting plant rights while accepting animal rights. If Smith thinks that plant rights and animal rights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moral goodness is quite distinct from and independent of rightness, which (as we have seen) belongs to acts not in virtue of the motives they proceed from, but in virtue of the nature of what is done. Thus a morally good action need not be the doing of a right act, and the doing of a right act need not be a morally good action.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Salt , "The Rights of Animals," International Journal of Ethics 10 [January 1900]: 206-22, at 209 [italics in original])'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The section on shooting birds in snow, for example, covers how to expose for snow (to the right), the consequences of different shutter speeds (fast shutter speed to show individual snowflakes or slow shutter speed to show streaks?), Photography & Ethics & Me. ” (p.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Fortunately, there does not seem to be any Sandpiper Ethics Committee, because legs will be ogled. Baird’s Sandpipers , like the one at right, helpfully still have summer coloring when they fly through my area (in great numbers) in August and September. How do I know these are Western Sandpipers ?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2010

That's right, free! Elsewhere in this blog (see here , here , and here ), I have written about ethical synergy , the regularly observed phenomenon that simultaneously showing respect for persons (including oneself), animals, and the environment typically benefits all three groups (including oneself).

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person. That fact alone suffices to grant them a legal right not to be made to suffer. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2016

Good leftist that he is, Peter Singer doesn't let a crisis go to waste. Addendum: The argument seems to be as follows: It is inconsistent both (a) to eat meat and (b) to condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; I condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; therefore, I may no longer eat meat. Here are some objections: The first premise is false.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

And she is very conscious of the ethics involved in the scientific processes she describes, even interviewing an ethics specialist on whether we should be burdening tiny birds with our scientific apparatus. She also effortlessly and consistently connects the science to its most important application, conservation. Geological Survey.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), died on February 15, 2024, at the age of 73. Wise was a trailblazer in the fight for legal rights for animals.

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Animal Person

JULY 25, 2010

I understand how someone who supports the Humane Society of the United States might think an event celebrating "humane" farms would be a good id, as HSUS isn't an animal rights organization. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film animal rights Tribe of Heart.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2010

Check out " On Motherhood and Pizza " at Animal Rights & AntiOppression, by yours truly, and have a Happy Mother's Day! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I support the goal of legal rights for nonhuman animals, but this approach is wrongheaded. Instead of using the 13th Amendment, the original understanding of which did not include animals, proponents should work for a constitutional amendment, or simply for national legislation. Take it to the people.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 20, 2008

In 1792, Englishman Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), a prominent translator of Plato and other Greek philosophers, published a satirical pamphlet entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes. If women have rights, then animals have rights. Animals do not have rights. Animals do not have rights. Women have rights.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 9, 2010

There's an interesting discussion about the frustrations of shopping (" On the Perils of Purchasing ") over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression. Tags: Activism Ethics Gray Matters.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Why is it surprising that I have little to say about the nature of rights? It would only be surprising to one who assumes that my case for animal liberation is based upon rights and, in particular, upon the idea of extending rights to animals. I have little to say about rights because rights are not important to my argument.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Animal rights groups are seeking leave to appeal to the high court in their ongoing fight to have Lucy the elephant moved to a warm-weather U.S. In their Supreme Court application, the groups say private citizens have a right to seek legal remedies to ensure that governments enforce animal protection laws. Excerpted from CTV News.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. He’s right.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's] Tags: ethics animal rights medical research.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Animal-rights activists claim an orca is being held in an "inadequate tank" in the Miami Seaquarium. Read the rest of the article in the Courthouse News Service. They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I soon found that this bird world is one with its own logic, rules, and ethics, a place with its own language and literature, its own art and history, its heroes and a few heroines. My goal was to get to know the birds and the world that surrounds them.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 29, 2008

If we apply the criterion of duty, the question of whether animals have rights can be readily answered: we have merely to ask whether, in considering an action affecting an animal, we could assent to such an action after abstracting from numerical determination. Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans. This question answers itself.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

However that doesn't make it right to use them. We have a legal right to use them, but that doesn't mean doing so is justifiable moral ly. Abortion is legal in this country, yet millions of people don't think it's right. None of this means that an action was wrong before it became legal, and then it became right.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Depends on the bird, right? The Cocina boasted hearty Costa Rican cuisine, but its real attraction was a collection of busy hummingbird feeders situated right by the front door. Good thing the ABA Code of Ethics doesn’t apply overseas! We’ve all heard the rough calculus equating a bird in the hand to two in the bush.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights. Ernst believes we don't have a right to use sentient nonhumans and all of her posts (and those of Alex Melonas, who also posts at animalrights.change.org) are unequivocal about animal use. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Inspire me to try a little harder to get that composition just right, to get that jaw-dropping moment. She has clearly decided that for her baiting is not away to get a photo, and if one does get a photo that way then the ethical thing to do is to state that, much as one should do with captive animals. My own take on that mirrors it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Significantly, the Introduction begins with “A Note to Readers: Ethical Considerations Regarding Wildlife” that offers guidelines on handling birds, for photographing nests and young, and for photographing wild birds in captive settings.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Or, open to change, he can take the message in the ensuing pages to heart, let it shift his mind and stir his soul, and thus begin, right now, his advance toward freedom for all species (7)." Do animals have rights? Do human beings have duties toward them regardless of whether they have rights? What kind do we have?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I don't want to comment right now except to say that there are no graphic images of suffering similar to those in, say, Earthlings. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. Karol Orzechowskiof Animal Voices (who interviewed yours truly back in July!) created the following film for your viewing, um. for your viewing.

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