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Food

10,000 Birds

Vegetarian food seems less interesting, or maybe it is just more difficult to capture on a photo … Many birds seem to regard Nanhui as a seafood restaurant. And of course, there are all kinds of insects, spiders, dragonflies, caterpillars, etc. But I am interested in what birds eat at my local patch here at Nanhui in Shanghai.

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Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019)

10,000 Birds

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. But I must admit, I enjoyed my bottle with a meal that required no butchery whatsoever, either by bird or man – a nice vegetarian mushroom ragù with pasta. Given its veneration of Chianina beef, it’s hardly surprising that Tuscany has brought forth the world’s first celebrity butcher.

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Bird Limericks

10,000 Birds

A certified non-vegetarian Avian veterinarian Is flying today With a condor fillet, So he’s carryin’ carry-on carrion. * Now it’s now and, of course, that was then. This form of cavorting Is ritual courting: How terns of endearment pitch woo. * A parrot or cuckoo would do, A canary or cockatoo, too.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2024

10,000 Birds

Japanese Sparrowhawks are not vegetarians. It is well known that chicks of this morph immediately start having an identity crisis when combining the knowledge of their species name with the information gathered from a look in the mirror. Fortunately, this is not an issue for the White-shouldered Starling. ” Hurray for science.

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Defending Laboratory Rats

Critter News

"You see people shut down if you talk about how a rat can suffer," says Chad Sandusky, director of toxicology and research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that fights for animal rights and advocates vegetarianism.

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Philip E. Devine on Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. A vegetarian of the first sort has no grounds for objecting to the eating of animals—molluscs for example—too rudimentary in their development to feel pain. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

His book on atheism is among the best I have read on that topic, which is why I used it in my Philosophy of Religion course many years ago. (I I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. Martin’s text is indented.