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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.