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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. I’ll refer you to Charlie’s impassioned essay against game hunting again, and you can see what I’m talking about. Invade… I’m sorry, liberate Iraq and we’ll be welcomed with flowers and democracy will spring forth.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Example: A reference to "still undemocratic Iraq" makes the assertion that eventually Iraq will be democratic. Using the human-appropriate relative pronoun "who" to refer to an animal is a planted assertion that animals should be considered in the same way that humans are considered.

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