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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

Shore Larks were therefore very high on my agenda during the last few days of the year as I found myself on the island Sylt, where they can frequently be found in salt marshes along the coast. Take that as an example of how to propperly behave towards birders, you silly Sibe Rubythroat! So that was my birding year 2016.

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