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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. They live in air-conditioned quarters and cared for in the most modern of avian medical facilities, with its own ophthalmology wing and intensive care unit.

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The Irony of The Girl Effect

Animal Person

It was because of her that her husband could get medical care when he fell ill. But it's the same concept that underlies both situations: viewing others as commodities that you have a right to exploit. The central message of the program was not about enslaving animals, of course. Our job, it seems to me, is to help them see it.

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