4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. 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. Tags: news.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds. Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare. I don't track zoos, but this seems like an unusually high number of casualties.

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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? photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It flies on.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

First, I will raise some questions that usually are not asked, let alone answered, by moral vegetarians. 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. Consider a different situation.

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