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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

10,000 Birds

While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. Insects seem to also be the main food item of Brown Shrikes , as this video also shows. A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.