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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

10,000 Birds

Only once did I see a large group of Canvasbacks at Cuitzeo. Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers? Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada.

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Tom Regan on Rights

Animal Ethics

The concept of moral rights differs in important ways from that of legal rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal. An individual's race, sex, religion, place of birth, or country of domicile are not relevant characteristics for the possession of moral rights. a despot) or any group (e.g.,

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

97/1 The welfare of the child religious, moral, and social, as well as physical and pecuniaryis the paramount consideration for the court. b. The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of (esp. as provided for and organized by legislation or social effort. c1369 CHAUCER Dethe Blaunche (Fairf.) TAYLOR Eng.