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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

Look at the Maryland-based website Crow Busters , although I warn you you’ll need a strong stomach for the photographs. Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Plain old fashioned Fun.”.

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

10,000 Birds

Thomas Serfass, a professor at Maryland’s Frostburg State University says, “I would describe the North American Model as incomplete. ” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. New Ideas In Conservation. Wildlife belongs to everyone and no one.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason.