10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
I can’t help noticing that you’ve just posted an angry story about Cecil the Lion on your timeline. And that lions are really cute. Cecil the Lion reached millions, and it exploded all over my social media in a way few conservation stories do (even with my social media heavily biased towards conservation).
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 21, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. SOME PROBLEMS OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM With respect to traditional moral vegetarianism some problems immediately come to the fore. What animals is it morally wrong to eat? But what is the extent of the universal moral principle?
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Animal Person
AUGUST 5, 2009
Finally, people who object to our moral stance jump species and say we should object to the lion killing the gazelle. Whether lions can do that or not is not something I think about. Besides, we have choices. Besides, we have choices. We can choose not to kill and eat someone we do not need to eat in order to survive.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals. When it is caught, it pisses all over itself, so that the fur is unfit to use, even though it could be put to many good applications.&#
Critter News
JULY 2, 2009
Animal experts descended for investigations of their own, and employee morale sank to an all- time low. The lion house, which provided sleeping cages for all the zoo's big cats, was shut down. The zoo's budget fell into the red as it tried to recover. Now, facing a $2.2 The Dhaliwals were awarded $900,000.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse? Animals suffer when killed. No pearly phrases can make that any better. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. Is this moral? In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.
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