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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions?

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. Is this moral? If Babyl lagged, some would wait for her.

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