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Steven M. Wise on Farm Animals

Animal Ethics

Their ethological needs and direct interests are neglected to the extent that their needs are not as congruent with higher productivity and profit. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. It also provides tax incentives to factory-farmers.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Consumers can help the beef industry save itself by both buying less and choosing grass-fed. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. It is essential for the industry’s survival. The other problem with meat consumption is proportion.

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On Going Vegan

Animal Person

I neglected to take the camera into the courtyard in the beginning, though I did bring the hounds and their beds. It's about not fetishizing one species while making an industry of torturing others. Violet was spooked early on, but Charles stayed for the entire evening. Veganism, to me, is about justice.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

10,000 Birds

The Latin species name hemilasius (half-hairy or half-shaggy) sounds less like a majestic raptor and more like a neglected hippie – but maybe this is deliberate, which I guess would make the bird a hipster. On Chongming Island, an Upland Buzzard seemed to be almost bemused by being mobbed by a single Oriental Magpie.

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“How about Pineapple Gose-beak?” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose

10,000 Birds

For every Hefeweizen and Oktoberfest, there’s a slew of forgotten German beer styles, cast aside by the forces of homogeny and hegemony as German brewers industrialized, ultimately emigrating abroad to spread the gospel of lagering and Reinheitsgebot around the world. As a result, Gose has become one of the hottest trends in craft brewing.

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