10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

This theatrical personality was first introduced to a wider audience in Bill Buford’s excellent 2006 culinary memoir Heat , which depicts Cecchini as uncompromising – and perhaps a bit mad – genius of butchery, but one with the utmost reverence for his craft and the respectful use of the animals we eat.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services shows that most livestock losses come from weather, disease, illness, and birthing problems, and not predation.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Their fragile homes, meager belongings and scant livestock attested to this, and yet the people seemed content with their lot in life. In 2006 the Ethiopian government started building the giant Gibe III Dam further up the Omo River. The future of these tribal cultures faces considerable uncertainty.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

But all those things form part of a complex human good, and I cannot help thinking that, when added to the ecological benefits of small-scale livestock farming, they secure for us an honourable place in the scheme of things, and neutralize more effectively than the vegetarian alternative, our inherited burden of guilt.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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