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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

.” “For many hunters, the traditional paper stamp is more than just a receipt for a tax paid, it is a badge of honor, a symbol of the hunter’s respect for the natural resources they are privileged to use … duck hunters are proud of their sport, proud of their heritage, and proud of their Duck Stamp Program.”

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New Research Shows Crabs Feel Pain

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Factory farming does not only happen on land. Overfishing, poor resource management, the view of life as a product for sale, and pure greed is crashing fisheries and destroying beautiful ecosystems. While the vast majority of this company's products were shrimp, the majority of its revenue was earned from crab sales.

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Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

Around the world NGOs and governments are working to ensure that people can extract benefits from natural resources in ways that benefit both. Moreover, philosophically, I have a massive problem with the idea that we shouldn’t extract resources from nature. All the resources we consume come from nature.

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On "Home"

Animal Person

On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Film Environmentalism Factory Farm Glenn Close Home Veganism Winged Migration.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

Critter News

This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."

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Are We Really a Movement?

Critter News

Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. But how much can we accomplish when our resources are so divided? (I believe they can speak, but in their own language that we can understand if we only listen.) I also believe that we are a fragmented movement.