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A Fish From the Blue

10,000 Birds

The zoo is part of Bear Mountain State Park , a glorious expanse of mountainous land on the west side of the Hudson River in New York. Melissa accompanied Danielle into the bear den for moral support, and partway into the cleaning session heard a thud. That fish just fell out of the sky.”. What was that?” asked Danielle.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness. That sounds like a win-win to us.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). Or pig, or duck, or fish.

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Organic Food

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about organic fish. Note that this debate is independent of the debate about the moral permissibility of eating fish. If organically raised fish suffer less than nonorganically raised fish, it is an accident, morally speaking.

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

10,000 Birds

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunters and fish and wildlife departments having a stake in Sandhills is a great thing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too. Kentucky Dept.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

10,000 Birds

82-29 Abingdon Rd, New York US-NY (40.7088,-73.8342). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas.

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