10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

So, maybe not be the best place to visit for monks suffering from depression. It had a bit of a desperate feel to it to me – almost no monks visible, many of the buildings crumbling or already deserted, and the practice of feeding pheasants apparently already discontinued.

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Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2008

The wolves suffer needlessly because hunters simply wound them more often then not firing from an airplane. I understand there may be some instances where predator control is necessary. I'm not an absolutist on this point. Doing it from low flying aircraft, however, is just barbaric. This is what Palin has pushed for.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Later it was determined these condors suffered from organophosphate poisoning after they were exposed to insecticides used for agriculture. Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. Photo: Alexander More.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. The birds forage in flocks and members are believed to stay on nearby if one is killed, according to the Lothas, they will wait to be killed and the hunter would soon see people around him die in quick succession one after another.”

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. Besides raccoon dogs, other types of domestic dogs are also suffering because of the high demand for their fur. The dog fur are used are inside lining for ugg boots.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. Glue traps: For compassion’s sake, please do not set, place, or hang them. Here’s why.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. In the months after a fire, wildlife populations can suffer substantial losses due to habitat alteration and destruction. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. So what do these facts mean for our wildlife?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Terrestrial animals could drown; will not be able to access the necessary ranges; be trapped; suffer diminished genetic diversity; and possibly become extirpated and/or extinct.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." Dick Gregory ("The Shadow That Scares Me").

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. There were 23 cows killed; some had to be shot up in trees where they were stuck. On Mother’s Day, an F2 Tornado hit the small town of Delmont, South Dakota. But this also struck me in other ways.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. residents believe that it's wrong to kill animals for their pelts, but the pelt industry is legal.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

However, Jewish and Islamic groups which can prove animals do not suffer more during ritual killing than in an ordinary slaughterhouse will be able to apply for permits. This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2008

The argument for vegetarianism is not based on any claim about the wrongness of killing animals—although some careless reviewers read this claim into my book, no doubt because they assumed that any moral argument for vegetarianism must be based on the wrongness of killing.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. clouded yellow) butterfly and one Brambling greeted me.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. In the past nine months, R&R has collected 4,807 items weighing 2,360.5 pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. Do they suffer any more or less in death? If sentience and suffering and "the mysterious unity of life" are really your concerns, you aren't going be eating any body. Are they any more or less sentient?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. I doubt anyone would want to begin their wedded life or celebrate the memory of a loved one by killing one or more gentle, lovely birds, however unintentionally.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

The horse landed on the young duchess, breaking her back but not killing her outright. Mary suffered for several weeks in what must have been an agonizing, bedridden death, finally succumbing to internal injuries at Wijnendale Castle, on March 27.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. The photos of the dead cuckoo published in the paper would not look out of place in a horror movie for a cuckoo audience.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. An area on her abdomen the size and shape of a pie pan was open. She was found again, but it was a sad time.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

Second, if the people who believe this would eat all of their "meat" unseasoned and raw, after having killed the source animal with their bare hands and ripped open the carcass with nothing but said hands and some teeth, I'd feel like maybe their argument was at least sincere. We simply cannot survive without killing them!

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Never let your pet near concrete until it is completely dry in addition to spoil the clean look of your new project, pets who come in contact with even slightly moist concrete can suffer irritation or corrosion of soft tissues. Anxious pets may chew on electrical cords and suffer painful burns or even electrocution.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Seeing birds suffer is never fun, but never more so than these trusting and uncomplaining young giants that sat all day like contemplative zen masters, meditating in the intense tropical sun. That said there is nothing to suggest that the Black-footed Albatross actually killed the Laysan, there was no shortage of already dead chicks around.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

There's no doubt across that scale of landscape and given the intensity of the fires, millions of animals would have been killed," he said. Rescuers have doled out antibiotics, pain relievers and fluids to the critters in a bid to keep them comfortable, but some of the severely injured were euthanized to spare any more suffering.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My In this case, the spirit of the corpse. And for the animal, it means death.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

As we’d just eaten our breakfast with the blackbirds, Katherine and I had some time to kill before our next meal. The view of Tomales Bay from the picnic tables at Hog Island Oyster Company in Marshall, California.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. But for all its historical importance, porter suffered a precipitous decline in popularity in the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic, and it vanished completely from its British Isles homeland when Guinness ceased porter production in 1974.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Nick Rahall and Raul Grijalva have introduced a bill that would protect healthy wild horses from being killed by the BLM. In a written statement, Rahall says the intent is to help spur alternatives to killing excess wild horses that are in holding facilities.

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