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Kentucky’s Crane Hunt-It Ain’t Over…

10,000 Birds

Thousands of letters and emails of protest apparently fell on deaf ears. Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. No wonder his state office answering machine has a message on it expounding on the delicious meat of the sandhill crane. That dog don’t hunt.

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Kentucky: First in Crane Hunting?

10,000 Birds

of Fish and Wildlife Resources—who will get together on June 3, 2011, to vote on whether to open season on Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky. Their slow wing beat keeps the breast meat from being as dark and strong flavored as many other migratory birds. This time, it’s the full commission– nine members of the Kentucky Dept.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view.