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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? Any other factories on the agenda? But I bet anything doesn't go.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

A traditionally managed fishery in the Cook Islands, or a the carefully managed collection of shearwater chicks in New Zealand by the Maori. A duck farmed in a factory is part of nature as much as one that grew up on a pond, even if the particulars of its ecosystem are different. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction.

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Deliciously Vegan!

Animal Ethics

Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factory farm conditions. They realize that factory farming is inhumane. Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering.

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Think Vegan Food Must Be Boring and Bland? Think Again!

Animal Ethics

Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factory farming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factory farming.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Collaborative List – February 2019

10,000 Birds

Cook’s Swift – Apus cooki. old angel factory area. Rio Sarapiqui – Rancho Magallanes restaurant. 01 Feb 2019. Germain’s Swiftlet – Aerodramus germani. Amaranth Hotel, 8, Amphoe Bang Phli TH-Samut Prakan (13.6465,100.7153). 18 Feb 2019. Doi Pha Hom Pok NP–Doi Lang (western slope), AKA Doi San Ju.

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