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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ The Bluefin Slaughter ” (editorial, Nov. On a late summer day in the 1960s, we stood on McMillan wharf in Provincetown harbor watching as the Silver Fox came steaming into port after setting the first purse seine around a school of giant bluefin tuna in Cape Cod Bay. Mayo II of Provincetown, Mass.

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

10,000 Birds

The one taking place this weekend at the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, NY is targeting American Crows , and parents are invited to bring their children along to participate in the slaughter. Foxes, coons, coyotes, possums and hawks all get a free meal that lasts for days on some of the larger shoots.”.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,