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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being. I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures. I replaced cow's milk with soy milk.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though.

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