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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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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

The lifestyle associated with the Sunday roast involves sacrifices that those brought up on fast food are unused to making—mealtimes, manners, dinner-table conversation and the art of cookery itself. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease.

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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). Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As