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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

Especially because animals are made to suffer in the pursuit of human purposes—in the name of "efficient" factory farming, for example, or in pursuit of scientific knowledge—the utilitarian injunction to count their suffering and to count it equitably must strike a responsive moral chord. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Tom Regan on Harm to Animals

Animal Ethics

Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions. Quite the contrary, just as would be true in the case of my son, what we should say is that part of the harm done to these animals by factory farming is that they do not know this. (

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

old angel factory area. old angel factory area. Dull-mantled Antbird – Sipia laemosticta. Arenal–Peninsula road (shortcut to dam). 06 Mar 2016. Zeledon’s Antbird – Hafferia zeledoni. 14 May 2016. Bicolored Antbird – Gymnopithys bicolor. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 29 Jan 2016. Tirimbina Rainforest Center.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

old angel factory area. Dull-mantled Antbird – Sipia laemosticta. Arenal–Peninsula road (shortcut to dam). 06 Mar 2016. Zeledon’s Antbird – Hafferia zeledoni. 14 May 2016. Bicolored Antbird – Gymnopithys bicolor. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 29 Jan 2016. Spotted Antbird – Hylophylax naevioides. 04 Mar 2016.

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