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Happy New Year?

10,000 Birds

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. What’s at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry. As for the doglike ones, “they did just as well as puppies right out of the box,&# Hare says.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. If so, no moral objection based on the killing of animals could be raised to the eating of meat.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine also recommends breast-feeding infants: Breast-feeding is nature's way of meeting the infant's nutritional needs, and also helps boost immunity, not to mention its psychological benefits. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas.

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