Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Let's deconstruct: The heading is: "Okay, so your steak comes from a cow that lived a happy life--but how did that life end?" It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life.

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

Felony animal cruelty is the cruel killing of an animal, and he is also being charges with 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body.) The four counts of burglary he is being charged with carry a heftier sentence than the animal killing. We don't say we hate cows.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2009

From the Seattle PI: The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?"

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". The underlying philosophy is that the dead animals "should be used in their entirety." We should all be so lucky.”.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2009

It never ceases to amaze me that people will get upset about the death of an animal whose killing was their job. In " Cows Killed by Lightning Strike ," by Angie Brown of the BBC Scotland, which today was updated to "Lightning Strike Kills Bullocks," we learn that Mr. McDougal was "very upset," numb and shocked by "the carnage he saw."

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2010

The government's proposals are aimed at tackling the growing problem of aggressive canines being used to harass, attack and even kill. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the number of complaints about dog fights had soared tenfold between 2004 and 2008, the last year for which figures were available.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. It is also used to prevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? What happened to all of the talk of tradition and the American West and culture and the horse's unique place in our history and how horses are different from cows and chickens?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). When in the position of having the choice, which so far is always, I'd rather choose not to have someone killed for me.

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My Honoring the lives of the animals and plants that die so that we can live.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. Where do people get that idea?

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

It's not like these people care about animals. Their kids are probably gonna be petting the animals they're eating and they might not even know it." Here 's a factsheet about petting zoos, which at least in Florida have been a public health threat , to say nothing of the exploitation and suffering of the animals.)

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. It's a bit difficult to take on the soul question for human or nonhuman animals, particularly for an atheist.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. All the friends of my youth were radical, righteous, intense.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. 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. No argument here. It's just not right.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., product that comes from an animal ). I think not.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

However, Jewish and Islamic groups which can prove animals do not suffer more during ritual killing than in an ordinary slaughterhouse will be able to apply for permits. This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. Or in the case of cheese made from the milk of cows.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here are just a few facts drawn from the column: Drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. last year—28 million pounds—went to pigs, chickens, and cows, which in turn creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant super germs. Slaughter’s bill banning the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The Indiana Daily Student wrote an article today encouraging people to kill and eat man's best friend! The author is pointing out the inconsistency of eating cows and not eating dogs (or rather, caring about dogs but not caring about cows). It's morally permissible to eat cows. It's not morally permissible to eat dogs.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. 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. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. coli bacteria or food additives.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

Yet, in 1990s India has killed more than 99% of its Gyps vultures (e.g. Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. No one knew why they were dying.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Let's summarize and deconstruct: After a botched execution, Ohio adopted a single-drug formula to replace the three-drug cocktail previously used to kill people. Riddle me this: What's the difference between a cow and someone on death row? For one thing, the cow has not been convicted of some heinous crime.

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Humane District of Columbia Cows Morals 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good! Driving slowly behind them… The guide knows his animals. They are crossing one or two at a time.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. we allow limited (by season and bag limits) hunting on populations of game animals that can sustain it. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Killing a hog can be avoided.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely?

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