Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. From the Daily Mail.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

He didn't know how his horses were being treated on his own farm? Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. Come on, that's a Michael Vick defense that didn't work with him either. Plus, this is the guy's BUSINESS.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

What messages and techniques have been proven effective in getting people to make compassionate decisions like boycotting fur and adopting companion animals instead of buying them? And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 5, 2011

The purpose is therefore to provide a Forever Home for those companion and farm animals that have virtually no chance of being adopted due to their age or condition. “We do not adopt out for the mere fact that the ones we have nobody wanted, and that is fine with us.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. And so, it was not until April 1991 that the last goat on San Clemente was shot, the final wary herds done in by grad students with sniper rifles and tame Judas goats with radio collars.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes. The decline of farming, combined with reforestation across the region have been noted as potential reasons for decline.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 24, 2009

Myers military and so much more! These events will shine the spotlight on the amazing animals and compassionate people across the DC region who love them and work tirelessly on their behalf.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2009

All need food, shelter, and medical care, so that they have the chance to be reunited with their original owners or adopted into caring, permanent homes. According to the ASPCA, as many as one million additional dogs and cats are in danger of losing their homes in 2009, at a time when fewer donations are coming in.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. “It’s like sending a child I birthed out into a horribly scary world.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) is in a time warp. Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture. You did not mention the tremendous progress made in ensuring that these farms are environmentally sound.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

To the Editor: Missing from your article was mention of deleterious environmental and health effects resulting from intensive animal farming in addition to global warming. If these policies were adopted, small-scale animal agriculture would be a more economical model, and people would eat less meat. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. What might be less obvious is that each of these reasons actually gives us a reason to adopt an entirely plant-based vegan diet, devoid of animal products.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Head positions typically adopted by foraging vultures suggest that these visual fields provide comprehensive visual coverage of the ground below, prohibit the eyes from imaging the sun and provide extensive visual coverage laterally.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

That original thought was a true statement, as free-range, grass-fed beef requires so much expense and land and water that not as many animals can be sustained as in an intensive farming situation. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

That's one of the reasons adopting wasn't a stretch for me at all mentally. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned. But so are family farms. There are children.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres and rescue group Farm Sanctuary both want you to Adopt-A-Turkey this Thanksgiving! So, this Thanksgiving instead of eating a turkey, please join me in adopting one from Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project and you can give a turkey something to be thankful for.”

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

One ought to adopt the best means. As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). Consequently, one ought not to eat meat.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The style has been adopted enthusiastically by contemporary craft brewers, so there are a lot of creative variations out there on the delicious but austere originals. Even the brewery’s spent grains, once shoveled out of the mash tun, are hauled off to a local farm as livestock feed. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2010

On Friday, June 25, I received a call from an attorney who said a little girl was born the evening prior, her adoption fell through and she needed a family. Because we planned to adopt I had been researching eco-friendly, vegan nursery items but had yet to purchase a thing. And on Sunday, June 27, we brought her home!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

Oddly enough, despite adopting the pugnacious and combative cockerel as a national symbol, France didn’t fare very well when it finally tried to assert colonial control over the homeland range of Gallus gallus , facing an abrupt eviction from Indochina after the fall Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

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