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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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? Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., What is greener than forage-fed meat? Kellman San Antonio, Oct.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Whereas those arguments maintain that grain-eating animals should not be slaughtered, this argument is at least consistent with the position that they should be: grain-eating animals, it might be maintained by a new moral vegetarian, should be slaughtered to prevent them from eating more grain and producing new grain-eating offspring.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? It is a very interesting read, and as I stated in the post I wrote on my blog , part of the team that wrote the plan is the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, one of the states proposing a Sandhill Crane slaughter. Why not just shoot the biggest one? Wicked, right?

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