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What’s in a Name: Northern Goshawk

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Instead, the name comes from the fact that in falconry, the Goshawk could be used for large prey – geese, yes, and also pheasants, hares, and cranes. As Macdonald herself amply proves, this is classic projection, another case of the human seeing in the nonhuman only what we want to see.

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

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If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., The theory is sound.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? Peters Paso Robles, Calif., The live feed can be monitored by any and all who are willing to watch. I think most would, enthusiastically. Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,