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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? In other words, the perception of pain is affected. This is where I'm confused. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). Yet, The Wryneck does not read like a literature review. This is a very easy book to read.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

10,000 Birds

Meliboea, a daughter of Niobe and Amphion, who was so traumatized by the slaughter of her siblings by a vengeful Apollo that she turned pale and changed her name to Chloris, the pale one)” I think it is very nice of the HBW to give you some choices in this matter.

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