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Year of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

My work focused on a consistently productive bald eagle nest in Kirkland, Wash., By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. How might one defend premise (6)?