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Farm Sanctuary Wary about Tom Vilsack for USDA

Critter News

This is a December 18 post from Gene Bauer's blog pointing out some concerns about Vilsack. I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry.

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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. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. Did the bird thank me?

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

I’m not going to rehash that war here, seeing as how it is a bird blog and not one about foreign policy, but it is perhaps appropriate to note the maelstrom of violence that has been pretty much ongoing since the neocons went in to make everything better. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction. she’s Texan.

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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.