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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

10,000 Birds

My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. It’s no longer the Middle Ages when ‘wall-building’ was a strategy to keep ‘them’ away from ‘us’. 360 miles of National Park land at the border! 27, August 2018, Vol.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

10,000 Birds

While the conclusion seems fairly established now, the paper still puts it in the usual wordy and careful statement: “The shorter minimum stopover duration of both species in spring may indicate a faster migration than in autumn, suggesting a time-minimizing strategy in spring to reach the breeding grounds as fast as possible.”

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

More important, it might be a much more efficient means of changing practice to stage protests at meat-packing companies, put pressure on congressmen, and work through existing humane organizations. In any case, which various political strategies would be most efficient for achieving humane treatment of animals is an empirical question.