Critter News
DECEMBER 20, 2008
Some conservationists worry that the tigers living at a Buddhist Temple in Thailand are drugged, but the monks deny it. Tourists visiting the Tiger Temple pay big money: anything from $15 just for entry, up to $50 for the very special photograph of a tiger with its head in your lap. Tags: tigers thailand.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 21, 2009
Who Should Not Eat Meat, or What Does a Vegetarian Feed His Dog? Since animals cannot be judged morally praiseworthy or blameworthy, the question of whether it is morally wrong for them to eat meat cannot be raised. Moral concepts such as “right” and “wrong” apply only to autonomous beings. Human beings can do without meat.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Here’s the thing: I personally never believed it, not even for one second. I did do some research on this topic, working with others. You’d starve.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
eBird states that “small white patch on throat is not obvious and difficult to see” And they use a photo that I submitted as main illustration, so they must be right. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal.
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