Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? What is greener than forage-fed meat? James Siegel Portland, Me.,

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest. If you suffer from this condition, 10,000 Birds is probably the last place on the Internet you should be visiting.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Well, the unsavory reputation of Australia’s fauna suffered another setback last week, though the conduct of the creature at issue wasn’t so much deadly as just plain rude. One of these killers even has the word “death” in its name, for crying out loud.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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