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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

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This makes these sections ideal for birding, with a much-reduced risk of being killed by a passing truck. (We Higher up on the Balangshan pass, Yellow-billed Choughs (Alpine Chough) benefit from the local fast food available for sale there, along with the limited environmental consciousness of some of the tourists.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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

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Twitching a Gray Kingbird in New York

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We also were amazed by the sheer volume of road kill we saw, something that Anthony detailed in his blog post , which I highly recommend you read, about the day. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

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We are people who believe that using animals when we don't need to, and certainly killing them when we don't need to, isn't right. Perhaps Spencer R would like to look into Eric Schlosser 's work, such as Fast Food Nation , and also the recent " Food Inc.," It simply cannot be justified.

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Transit in Dubai

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Many people find themselves with a few hours to kill during transit and could potentially add a few ticks to their trip list as they pass through. It is mainly scrub and woodland in a dry area with a mosque and fast food restaurant in the central area. Pay AED10 to get through the control gate and turn right shortly after.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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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.