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The Whistle Blowers

10,000 Birds

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. West Indian Whistling Ducks are the largest of the eight different whistling duck species.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

KBJ: Humans and pigs are not just sentient, which already distinguishes them from microorganisms; they are, in Tom Regan’s terminology, “subjects of a life.” One might first ask, “Why does higher intelligence mean that one species is more valuable than other species?” Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.)

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