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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. I say they were butchered, face-off. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. One may say so. How much time did you need to read this blog?

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? This is about finding "affordable options for unwanted horses," the article says. Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant.

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On Wearable "Roadkill"

Animal Person

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". The final paragraph of the article is perhaps the most cringe-worthy.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

They could also give bones to a lion (lions are easy to come by), and they could simulate an early human ancestor butchering an animal with stone tools (we Africanists normally do this at parties). This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.

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