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Audubon’s Footsteps

10,000 Birds

Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803. (His They couldn’t use sails, she says, because “the many turns on the river.

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Animal Ethics

Louisville, Ky., There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. For the same reason that most of us would not eat our pets, we should also not eat chickens, pigs or other animals. Borders Jr.