Critter News
JANUARY 5, 2009
Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare. There are people who are saying, ‘This is just ridiculous,’ but that’s not how the general public sees it,” {Washington agricultural correspondent Jerry} Hagstrom says. Tags: farm animal welfare us agribusiness. and other advocates.”
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
will walk to raise money to save the lives of shelter dogs. While Scooby and Cesar will lead the walk in Washington, D.C., additional pack walks will take place nationwide September 23–30, with the help of the Animal League of North America. Scooby-Doo, Cesar Millan, four-legged friends and their pet parents from around the U.S.,
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. She was clearly not a young bird and was banded, so once she was warm and fed, I called the Bird Banding Lab in Washington, D.C., The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. She was tired, thin, and had several medical issues.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. And fun and food are, I’d submit, not enough reason to fell a bird in which only one in three pairs manages to raise a single chick each season; a bird that has captured the imagination and hearts of tens of thousands of people, whose sonorous purr floats down from on high like the voice of a pterosaur.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
” A Nicobar Pigeon bathes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington © David J. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G. Viti Levu Giant Pigeon ( Natunaornis gigoura ).
Animal Person
AUGUST 6, 2009
I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”
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