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Birding Shanghai in May 2024

10,000 Birds

” Hurray for science. Japanese Sparrowhawks are not vegetarians. Richard’s Pipit is a rather aristocratic-looking pipit. If the tree sparrows ever start a revolution, this species is likely to be among the first to be lined up against a wall and shot. Vagrancy may be a mechanism to establish such new locations.

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

4 The Love Of Animals

Previous events have featured live entertainment from the Phoenix Projekt Fire Dancers, Kodama Taiko Drummers, The Panache Orchestra, and various film presentations about Kitten Rescue. Sold out crowds of over 400 guests have enjoyed a vegetarian dinner complemented by cocktails with themed names such as the “Fuzzy Kitten” and the “Tom Cat”.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer. Moreover at present I see no moral objection to eating the flesh of free range cattle, which seem to me to have a happy life which they would not have at all if they were not destined to be eaten. I am myself not so heroic.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?