10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2011
Thousands of letters and emails of protest apparently fell on deaf ears. Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. No wonder his state office answering machine has a message on it expounding on the delicious meat of the sandhill crane. That dog don’t hunt.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2011
Their slow wing beat keeps the breast meat from being as dark and strong flavored as many other migratory birds. On Dr. Gassett’s answering machine, which someone calling to protest the hunt is likely to encounter, is a similar message about the quality of crane meat. Well, fire up my grill.
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Animal Person
MARCH 31, 2009
Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?" I wonder if she actually said "If they're cutting up meat. ". Perhaps all sandwich shops should be housed in abattoirs. PS-Note the brackets provided by the journalist.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's] The article continues.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 6, 2009
As I have suggested above, vegetarianism may have a protest or symbolic function. Nevertheless there is, as far as I can determine, no moral duty not to eat meat, and one who eats meat is not thereby committing any moral error. Second, suppose that there is no moral obligation to so protest or commit onself [ sic ].
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. Second, it seems to assume that not eating meat is the best way to conserve grain. None of these assumptions seems plausible.
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