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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. They will allow the human, if she behaves correctly, to be the junior partner in the hunting enterprise – nothing more. We serve them.”.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India.

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Sarah Palin's Sellout of a Speechwriter

Critter News

A vegetarian who is regularly critical of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including aerial hunting, which Palin supports. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights.

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Canis Lupus

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times blog post about wolf hunting. While this belief might not compel us to be vegetarians, it does demand significant changes in the way we raise animals for food, and it forbids wolf hunting as a form of entertainment. Why does this belief not "compel us to be vegetarians"? Is meat-eating necessary?

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Moral Blindness

Animal Ethics

Salt , The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues [London: The Ideal Publishing Union, 1899], 109-10 [italics in original]) The only real cure for the evil is the growing sense that the lower animals are closely akin to us, and have Rights.

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! "The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground.

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Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

There are some personal anecdotes I plan on sharing on this site that range from my most recent experience of getting trapped on a hunting trip with my relatives, to an early memory I have of experiencing empathy for the first time with my dog Tabatha. Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong.