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Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams

10,000 Birds

Yet that is not the overall impression that I came away with while reading this solid and attractive new title from Indiana University Press. Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams – Indiana University Press, $29.00.

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27,000 Animals Rescued in Texas

Critter News

From the Detroit Free Press. An Arlington, Texas, municipal judge ruled that the animals suffered from neglect and cruel conditions, and an appeal by the company's owners to a higher court was denied last weekend. This rescue is the result of a PETA undercover investigation. See, husband, this is why I like PETA!)

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. sexual abuse, and animal fighting as well as neglect (such as hoarding). Time and again, she has been caught housing dozens of sick, neglected animals in squalid conditions. This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.),

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Tom Regan on Human Chauvinism

Animal Ethics

There is a neglected other side to the anthropomorphic coin. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 31 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) This is human chauvinism.

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The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida

10,000 Birds

I am often guilty of neglecting “place&# when birding. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Why is a particular destination better than the next for certain birds?

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R. G. Frey on the Principle of the Equal Consideration of Interests

Animal Ethics

The principle of the equal consideration of interests, therefore, applies to them, which in turn means that we are not morally justified in ignoring, disregarding, or otherwise neglecting their interests. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec. As you note, the lack of media coverage of the livestock sector’s contribution to climate change is one reason it has escaped large-scale public outrage.