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Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido

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They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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New Book on Ethics of Meat-Eating

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I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animal rights. All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. One is a huge supporter of animal research. Tags: meat. What do I choose? But now we have "Eating Animals,"by Jonathan Safran Foer.

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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These Hadada Ibis were right in the garden of the place where we stayed. While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. In 1964, two researchers described a new species, the White-chested Tinkerbird, and brought a specimen back to the UK. It must be frustrating.

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Komen and KFC: A Match Made in Hell

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Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. It's not just a question of animal rights. But, really, even if I ate meat, I wouldn't touch KFC. Komen Foundation. That stuff is horrible!

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Our Strange Relationship with Animals

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One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's] Tags: ethics animal rights medical research.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Animals as Raw Material

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From plastics made from feather protein to diesel fuel made from fat to organic fertilizer made from poultry litter, the USA's top meat producers are developing new uses and markets for the animal parts that humans won't eat, says Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association in Alexandria, Va. Once you're dead, you're dead.

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