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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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An Affront to the Idea of Family

Animal Person

And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. But now I think about all of that being done to my daughter and I must say the disgust I experience at the notion that a family farm is somehow a wholesome place is a bit overwhelming. The cows' tails swing in the breeze.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

10,000 Birds

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

You can follow their blog, Flight to Freedom , to get updates on how the lions are doing, and to read the full story and see videos like the one below. The ADI rescue operation was backed by Bob Barker. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide.

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Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

First of all, I would like to thank Keith for inviting me to be a part of this blog. Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms.