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Pheasant Stocking an Unfortunate Waste of Money

10,000 Birds

Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? residents believe that it's wrong to kill animals for their pelts, but the pelt industry is legal. Smoke, eat, and drink themselves to death? Poison the water, soil, and air on which they rely? Believe that other religions are false but theirs is true? (25).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. There is little that is less polluting and less harmful to the planet than hunting wild game responsibly. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Lois Bloom Easton, Conn., Contrary to Ms.