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What makes a good bird guide?

10,000 Birds

He suffered from the lack of experience as a traveler and someone who has hired guides himself. However knowledgeable you might be, you cannot know for sure that an uninjured, free-ranging bird will be waiting for you where it usually does.

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How to ‘treat’ your cat right

4 The Love Of Animals

Just like people, pets that are not treated right can suffer from stress and other health problems, and an inadequate diet, for example, will make cats more prone to infections and illnesses. Options for treats. Temptations treats.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

When I started blogging, I thought that if more people sought out free-range, grass-fed "beef," more animals would be saved/fewer would be created. I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

Of course even though they may not have the capacity for happiness and suffering that whales have, nevertheless I would suppose that chickens can suffer quite a lot, even though their consciousness should be very much a sort of daze, and this should be taken into account in our dealings with them. I am myself not so heroic.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

A “free range” bird eats insects, as well as plants, so it gets more nutrition out of the same amount of land than do her cattle, which eat only the grass. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Indeed, in Ms. They also help with pest control.