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Releasing White Doves

10,000 Birds

They are highly trained homing pigeons, which is why it costs more to hire a company that will deliver this type of bird, and to make sure they are released correctly. Ethical businesses post notices on their websites stating that unless the released birds are properly trained and conditioned, they will not survive.

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

10,000 Birds

What do you think: would you have developed faster and developed better skills or habits if someone older would have encouraged you and provided training and resources at a very early impressionable age? In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered.

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Brouwerij Verhaeghe: Duchesse de Bourgogne

10,000 Birds

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. The horse landed on the young duchess, breaking her back but not killing her outright.

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Breed Specific Legislation

4 The Love Of Animals

According to information gathered by Best Friends Animal Society , the charity beneficiary of funds raised by ITo, “cities around the country are passing bills to round up and kill family pets, who simply look like the kind of dog who might attack someone.”

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! Thanks and best wishes!

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 2 of 13

Animal Ethics

This becomes especially true when one realizes that vegetarians often argue that a reason that it is prima facie wrong to eat animals is that animals must be killed to provide the food. What other values should be sacrificed in order to prevent the killing and eating of wild animals by other wild animals? KBJ: Three points.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. And for what? But not shocked enough.