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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Animal Studies and Tradition

Being the sort of person who reads – and comments – at blogs, I’ve found myself in discussions from time to time regarding the morality of animal use. Lately, the context has been the Canadian seal hunt and efforts by Native advocates to justify one form of seal hunt (traditional), but condemn another form (capitalist). [...]

Animals and Development

Writing a footnote, I came up with the following calculations: If the world was brought to the same standard of living as enjoyed by Canadians, 163.2 billion animals would be consumed annually worldwide. If the world was brought to the same standard of living as enjoyed by Americans, 226.5 billion animals would be consumed annually [...]