10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. Then there is a gap of around 2,000 km (or 1,200 miles). Surprise, surprise.

Burma 162

Burma Laos Birds Indonesia 162

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

If I pay my taxes during the Vietnam war, does this mean I am tacitly supporting the war? But so could lots of other things: wearing an animal rights button, picketing meat-packing houses, and so on. It is certainly not clear what one gives one’s tacit consent to in following a practice. Certainly not. What if I don’t eat meat?

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40