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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. How does the health of a farmer’s family and community figure in when they are making the decision to continue industrialized production methods? The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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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. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?

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On Food/Lifestyle Disputes At Home

Animal Person

In " Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes " in the Environment section of today's New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports that American households have become a battleground for beliefs about the environment. Changing the family diet because of environmental concerns can be particularly loaded, Ms.

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

97/1 The welfare of the child religious, moral, and social, as well as physical and pecuniaryis the paramount consideration for the court. b. A lot of Puerto Ricans coming up to New York to get a free handout. b. 1/1 The number of family units on the welfare rolls has more than doubled in the past year.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. It is OK for people to like to hunt. Wicked, right?

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Birding Lakeview Drive Ponds, Paradise Island, New Providence, Bahamas

10,000 Birds

From 20 February through 25 February I was on a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas. More specifically, I was on Paradise Island, the small, resort-laden and heavily developed island on the north end of New Providence, adjacent to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas.

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