10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2022
Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2021
I kind of expected to see some sort of industrial wasteland; but a fair amount of forest is still there. I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. So on March 29th, I steeled myself emotionally, and went back to Pino Real for the first time in 18 months. But, thank God, it has not.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. Fortunately, throughout the tenure of the refinery many of the older, larger trees were preserved.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry. With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75). I could go on and on.
Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 2, 2007
Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. She wanted to get into the same stall with Shirley.
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