Zelda Survived Sandy!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2012
Zelda, the Wild Turkey who makes Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan, her home, managed to survive the flooding and devastation that Manhattan suffered due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Clemson Researcher Investigates Impacts of Cages on Laying Hens
Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
Crowded and filthy conditions mean suffering for hens. How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. It's a study funded by the US Department of Agriculture. One would think it would be elementary.
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On Post-Hurricane Birding in Queens
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2012
Daisy had heard of an organization called YANA (You Are Not Alone), that was distributing relief supplies to those who had suffered from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, and that needed warm clothes and other supplies for children, so she prepared a box of clothes that Desi had outgrown, along with wipes and diapers. People are too.
Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
If not knowing this information any longer and thus suspecting you might be suffering from dementia, there are always some other animals around to facilitate assisted suicide. Purple Herons are not very common and quite shy in Shanghai while here, they behave like they own the place.
Essentials For Packing When Birding Anywhere In The World
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
The one downside: they make your feet incredibly stinky, but if that’s what I must suffer for foot comfort, so be it. The hand warmers in my pocket not only were relief for my fingers but kept my batteries in my camera a little warmer too, extending their life. Hats are a must.
J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Of course even though they may not have the capacity for happiness and suffering that whales have, nevertheless I would suppose that chickens can suffer quite a lot, even though their consciousness should be very much a sort of daze, and this should be taken into account in our dealings with them. I am myself not so heroic.
Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2011
If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. All animals would be kept in battery conditions and the righteous vegetarians would exert no economic pressure on farmers to change their ways. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.
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