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Nyala, Southern Africa’s Stunning Antelope

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By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox. In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. ” one.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. We do not need meat, let alone pork, in order to live. But what about microorganisms?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. If we all decide to consider animals as precious as humans, the only logical place for us is back in the jungle.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. 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., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”