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

10,000 Birds

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. Overly generous inclusion?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. The ability to feel pain is not an obviously plausible way of morally distinguishing microorganisms from other organisms. What Meat Should Not Be Eaten?

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