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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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Sending photos of it to an American friend and birdwatcher got the following response: “It is grossly unfair that Asians even in massively industrialized landscapes have great kingfishers. Black Redstarts are rare in Shanghai (in fact, this was the first one I have ever seen here) but not so in France.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry. In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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And I really would have like to know what happens to that land when the industry goes. The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. That sounds like a win-win to us.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds.

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Let's deconstruct: The interview reminds me of how the industry views us and how little they know about the community of people who care about the lives of the animals brought into this world for one reason only: to kill and eat them. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times.

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

Animal Ethics

HSUS also reports find fur garments falsely labeled "faux" at Loehmann's, revealing an industry-wide problem when it comes to fur labeling. Each semester when I teach Contemporary Moral Issues, on the first day of class I begin with a survey. all-things-considered wrong ) to cause an animal to suffer for no good reason.

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