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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile.

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Animal Person

(Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs. Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.)

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.