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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

Look at the Maryland-based website Crow Busters , although I warn you you’ll need a strong stomach for the photographs. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Why do they do this? She owns an arsenal of rifles, and has been licensed to carry a handgun for 17 years.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Thomas Serfass, a professor at Maryland’s Frostburg State University says, “I would describe the North American Model as incomplete. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.” New Ideas In Conservation.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. 105-6) Dr. Spock is not alone in his endorsement of breast-feeding human infants. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.