10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do.

Birds 147

Birds Australia Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.

Killing 204

Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 204

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. Running time: 12 Minutes.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40