Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

I've officially been blogging for four years (1,329 posts and 5,441 comments) today, and as I (re)ponder whether I will continue, I'd like to present some lessons I've learned about blogging, veganism, people, "the movement," language and. Today I'll address blogging. Tags: Activism Ethics Gray Matters Language.

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Vegan Animal Unwanted Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I will, of course, gather those responses and use them in a blog post, so make sure you indicate in your email if you want your full name used (and if you have a blog include the URL so I can link it). Tags: Asides Explore These Related PostsCarnival of the Blue XLVTerrifying [.] It is that awesome! Get to it already!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 185

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." 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.

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Family Factory Farm Factory Farming Cows 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. Of the ten students, two had gone on the trip the year before and one had experience with the Sooty Terns, meaning 30% of us knew what we were doing, and 70% had zero idea.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

It's humbling to experience all of this for the first time in my nearly 43 years, from the showering in the morning and donning fancy clothes and make up, to commuting with thousands of my closest friends, to having to hire people to walk my dogs and spend time with them because I'm not home during the day. But something else has happened.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 21, 2011

Be sure to ask for a health certificate when you’re at the vet and all of your pet’s vaccination tags. Identification tags—make sure there is a cell phone number on the tags in the event your pet gets lost. If your pet has a medical condition, take a copy of pertinent medical records in the event of an emergency.

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Pets Medical Vet Laws 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

Perhaps you’ve had the same experience. If you blog about birds, you are invited as always to submit a link and summary to your best recent post about birding or wild birds to me (mike AT 10000birds DOT com) for inclusion in the next edition of IATB. Tags: iatb • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?

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Costa Rica 2011 Birds Deer 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. Redgannet (the blog) fledged in February 2009 and the 100th post was published as he was invited to become a beat writer for 10,000 Birds.

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2011 Deer India New York 188

Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

I thought I could stay with the group because she does give me fodder for the blog. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. Tags: animal research. And like I said, I love the other people in it. Here's a post from Animals and Politics.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" Tags: Ethics Language.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. Once we are no longer so advanced, should we then be valued less and then subjected to experiments for this new and "unique" species of the future? I'm not going into why I do not support animal research.

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Medical Research Animal Research Medical Research 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

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. Tags: news people helping animals rescues webvideos. The ADI rescue operation was backed by Bob Barker. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide.

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ADI Animal Defenders International Bolivia Lions 100

Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

The PF Chang update, in case you haven't seen the response from the restaurant , is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don't eat non-vegan sugar, there aren't many options. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink. Let me know.

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Vegan Ethics Animal Game 100

Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank. Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics. Did I thank the Loft Literary Center for all its support, or the Friends of the Saint Paul Library for hosting the MN Book Awards?

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Sheep Slaughter Slaughtered Lamb 100

Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Snark defined blogging back then. Researchers conducted experiments in a lab, then released the animals into the wild, making sure to note that "This was a much harder part of the study, and involved lugging around of batteries," and found similar results.

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Animal Pigs Human Animals Humane 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

more migratory sky shots here ) Tags: march , weekend • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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2011 Deer Birds South Dakota 150

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

Keep your pets tags on them at all times because you never know when disaster may hit. Include your VCA veterinarian’s name, clinic name and address and the information for a local emergency clinic. This will aid rescuers if you’ve become separated from your pet and it must be treated.

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Pit Bulls Pets Shelters Medical 100

Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Films are seeds (and Eric of I'm Vegan took a bit of a spill and when he's healed a bit more he'll get back to finishing up), blogs are seeds, vlogs are seeds, my recycled inner-tire rubber handbag is a seed. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. So there you have it: greyhounds are seeds, too.

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Vegan Greyhounds Sanctuary Animal Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE! … Tags: Lewiss Woodpecker , new york , woodpeckers • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! It made it through the rough winter and is still coming around to the feeders.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2011 New York Deer Birds 155

Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. Part of the reason my interest in blogging daily has waned is because of the infighting and mean-spiritedness that can be read. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I'm trying to gauge people's receptivity to what I'm about to say.

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Animal Advocacy PETA Animal Advocacy 100

Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

It's probably more powerful if you were just there and have something to say about your "Dining Experience" (they ask which franchise and at what time you visited). But until then, unfortunately, the vegans that I am in contact with through my blog and through twitter and other venues online and not, will be dining elsewhere.

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Vegan Vegetarian PETA Chickens 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. There are few animal rights stories in the news. That's respect.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

Animal Person

JULY 21, 2010

I somehow became the non-vet, go-to person regarding dogs and diabetes, I suppose due to my frequent blogging about Violet Rays (left), my greyhound who has been through diabetes, blindness (then cataract replacement), glaucoma and retina detachment. My experience, because I test frequently, was relatively uneventful.

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Vet Emotional Greyhounds Cats 100

Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2009

I' m concerned about Maple Farm Sanctuary , whose founders are two of the seven subjects in our new film , and I was wondering if you'd be willing to reach out through your blog to let people know that the sanctuary is in a financial tight spot right now. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Film. Mary (Animal Person).

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Farm Sanctuary Sanctuary Farming Goats 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Birds and their conservation locally, he thinks, are things that people need to talk more about in Cyprus, so much that he now blogs and tweets almost exclusively about these topics at Migrations. Tags: spring , wheatears • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today!

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Cyprus 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. Habitat destruction, hunting and disturbance are further factors affecting the population.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Mwahahahahaaaaaaaarrrrhh *cough, cough* *sips at his coffee* Right… I am told candy is a virtue and have thus lured you into this post with a bit of eye candy before unveiling to you my virtuous scheme of turning 10,000 Birds into an all gulls , all the time blog. He first became famous in the bird blog world on Bell Tower Birding.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Ringer Tags: cormorants , frigatebirds , genetics , taxonomy and systematics • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! He contributes to several birding and conservation projects on the web, but his home online is Search and Serendipity , a birding blog he started in 2005.

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