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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3. With all the research that has been done on lead vs non-lead bullets, there is no reason for ANYONE to use lead when hunting.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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The Horrors of Shark Finning

4 The Love Of Animals

The shark is thrown back because shark fins are often more valuable than the meat itself. Claims for shark fins include relieving joint pain and curing cancer, though no research is available to back any of these claims. In fact, dried shark fin can go for as much as $300 a pound or more.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. I did do some research on this topic, working with others. He correctly criticized my advisor at the time, Glynn Isaac, for having done that.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior. A tradition was born.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.

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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. Scientific research and expertise are needed here. But what about microorganisms?

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