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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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A Red-naped Sapsucker and a Townsend’s Warbler

10,000 Birds

It seemed as though “other species” referred mostly to species of hummingbirds until I came across some reports from a Listserv in Maryland of an exceptional TOWA, that was reported to be feeding from sapsucker wells. Thus I bring you, the story of the Red-breasted Sapsucker and the Townsend’s Warbler.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

While this already stretches credulity, the saying continues to state that seeing one mammal is better than seeing ten pheasants (Bella from Alpinebirding indeed confirmed that this saying exists and has not just come to me in a dream. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington.

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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

10,000 Birds

Slightly larger than Wales and about the size of the US state of Maryland, this country’s lure is its 703 bird species and three dozen Albertine Rift endemics among them. The endemics of the Albertine Rift Mountains are marked in bold, 10 mammals and 26 birds. are covered in the remaining 49 pages.

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