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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Fast food containers are popular. “An The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

From the point of view of religion, however, the question presents a challenge. And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom.

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Birding while Holiday Shopping

10,000 Birds

Common Myna , a fairly recent introduction, is practically a specialist in dumpster diving at fast food joints, roosting under vehicles near shopping malls, and nesting in neon store signs. If enough trees are present, Blue Jay and Red-bellied Woodpecker become distinct possibilities.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.