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Salon des Refusés (part 1)

10,000 Birds

While it is laudable to point out the plight of homeless woodpeckers, this is hardly the right subject for an upbeat bird photo contest. Notes on bird species and locations shown: Amur Paradise Flycatcher (Nanhui, China). Every bird photo should tell a story, not just show a bird. My wife tells me this all the time.

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FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week

4 The Love Of Animals

FiXiT is dedicated to coming up with solutions to reduce the number of homeless animals by helping people get their animals get spayed/neutered. Every year 3-4 million dogs and cats die in animal shelters in the United States because there aren’t enough homes for them.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Conversely, animals who are personally safe are not endangered, even if they belong to an endangered species (14).