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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

Created by Nancy Brennan, Birdsbesafe looks like a stiff, brightly-colored Elizabethan collar – not the long plastic post-surgical cones that pets occasionally have to wear, but a small donut that fits around the cat’s neck without getting in the way. Her product could have a large impact on pet cat-caused bird mortality rates.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

Journal of the American Dietetics Association 109(7), July 2009: 1266-1282.] Layer hens spend their entire lives permanently confined in battery cages with 6-9 other hens and have only half a square foot of living space per bird. Furthermore, vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index and lower overall cancer rates.