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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animal abusers are cowards who take their issues out on “easy victims”—and their targets often include their fellow humans. I cannot begin to say how many incidents I’ve seen involving animal abusers who commit violent acts against humans, and animal neglecters who have also neglected their children or other human dependents.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

This would result in improved human health, decreased environmental destruction and better animal welfare. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Human beings, like dogs, are omnivores. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy. Children need protein. George Mazzei St. Petersburg, Fla.,

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Chris’s recent New York Times article, “ Three Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life ,” adapted from this book, encapsulates that essence. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World is Christian Cooper’s story.

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