10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Even at current minimum standards, each bird is given less space than a sheet of paper. But this legislation would allow yet more birds to be squashed in, cutting that space by almost a quarter. It’s hard to walk or even flap their wings.

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RSPCA Legislation Animal Welfare Chickens 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

If, in fact, Trader Joe's deems debeaking as necessary, then this immediately reveals the high density of birds. Under a high-stress, high-density environment, a natural pecking order cannot be established and the sharp beaks of hens can result in injury (and death) to large numbers of birds.

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Eggs Cage Free Debeaking Humane 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds. Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare. Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope.

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Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, the local subspecies of Bewick’s wren, a bird described in 1908 a “very common on all parts of the island,” was gone by the 1940’s, its habitat converted into goat flesh. And so, these goats ate the flora of the island: unique species of Indian paintbrush and woodland star, bushmallow and wirelettuce and morning glory.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. American Bird Conservancy – The Cats Indoors!

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Cats Feral Cats Litter Ohio 209

Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Farm Bureau 100

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Welfare Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the rest of 10,000 Birds. I’m not just saying this to be an annoying gadfly on the backside of the birding and general wildlife community, although this is certainly a fringe benefit. You protect an entire ecosystem that holds 350 bird species. You do a lot of good.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 186

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." Isn't it better for science, and more humane, to use just one animal?

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand.

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New York Times New York Los Angeles Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

This is of course an anathema for many in the animal rights camp. I’m not unsympathetic to concerns about animal welfare, really. So we do the best we can with what we have. And, honestly, that’s fine. To a point.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 214

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. Our friend Miranda had her eye on Tina, the only bird distinctive enough to be named." And by highlights, I mean sentences that made me want to scream.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. Most of the people debating this issue are for conservation, they are against wild areas being destroyed and wild species being threatened with extinction.

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 176

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on. Suppose you are marooned on a desert island inhabited by edible birds. You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described.

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