10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Scott Weidensaul is a prolific writer of articles and books; his titles include Return to Wild America (2005), Of A Feather (2007), Peterson Guide to Owls (2015), and his first book on migration, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds ( 1999). birding tour company.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Worth a look.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

annually) was detected in the Baltic Sea, with counts in 2007-2009 putting the wintering population at c. Industry now heavily invests in greenwashing and its representatives today do not speak out so frankly. Since surveys in 1992-1993, an apparent decline of c. 373,000 individuals, down from c. 933,000 in 1992-1993. What has changed?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Based on these numbers, FWS estimated that birder spending on equipment and travel generated nearly $107 billion in total industry output, 666,000 jobs, and $13 billion in tax revenue. There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2007 and 2003. That’s a lot of birding.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry. Judith Abeles San Diego, March 26, 2007 Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., That is never humane.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 22, 2007

16): Given our exportation of large-scale intensive confinement facilities, it is tragic, though not surprising, that disease is devastating the Chinese industry. With this industrialization often comes overcrowding, inadequate ventilation and related physiological stress—factors implicated as heightening the risk of disease outbreaks.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still ‘The Jungle,’ ” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Jan. 2): Yes, 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the plight of the immigrant and focused in part on the meat industry. Since 1999, the incidence of E.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

18 editorial about the abuse of antibiotics in industrial hog farms. To the Editor: I applaud “ Antibiotic Runoff ,” your Sept. It not only brings light to a serious issue, but also begins to make the connection between factory farm practices and consumer choices. Hamilton Mill Valley, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Now that the carriage industry is being held under a microscope, it’s clear that it puts a black mark on the city. 6, 2007 Note from KBJ: I couldn't resist highlighting the metaphors. There is only one way to avoid future noncompliance and free city resources that are already spread too thin —institute a ban.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

To the Editor: As sponsors of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , we take issue with Christa Weil’s views on the horsemeat industry ( Op-Ed , March 5). The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. Senator) Mary Landrieu (Rep.)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

While some chicken producers and poultry purchasers have taken steps to reduce antibiotic use, the hog industry remains largely resistant to change. To the Editor: Re “ Antibiotic Runoff ” (editorial, Sept. To address this problem, I have introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

It’s time to put aside foolish romantic notions and reject the demands of a self-serving industry. For years, the public has had to endure tragic accidents, heat prostration, deaths and severe injuries to both people and horses. Shame on Mayor Michael R. Shame on Mayor Michael R. Zelda Penzel New York, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Andrew Kimbrell Executive Director Center for Food Safety Washington, June 29, 2007 To the Editor: Henry I. But I do know that the dairy industry and its lobbyists do not want to require labeling milk produced with rBST. June 29, 2007 To the Editor: Henry I. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Fox joined the Achiever around 2007 (one of the few failings of the book is that it doesn’t specify the exact year (or years) of her voyages; it’s not clear if the book is the account of a chronological year or an amalgamation of several years). And, this was badly needed.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

The pork industry has acted on its own over the last decade to solve water-discharge problems and create top-shelf manure management systems. In fact, the study cited in the editorial had to reach back eight years to 1999 to find a major environmental problem associated with hog farming.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

million hectares in 2007. The timber industry-led assault on this resource is building towards ecological catastrophe. Figures I could obtain indicate that Ghana’s forests have reduced alarmingly from 8.2 million hectares at the beginning of the 20th century to a mere 1.4

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress. The study was published in the December 2007 issue of the Public Library of Science’s journal PLOS Medicine.

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