10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Fortunately, there does not seem to be any Sandpiper Ethics Committee, because legs will be ogled. Up north, Black-chinned and Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are model citizens; their almost-identical females do their civic duty by breeding on different sides of North America. How do I know these are Western Sandpipers ?

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Mexico United States North America Ethics 137

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. ” (basic points, like bird names, plumage differences); “After the Spark” (birdsong and migration); “Now What?” He received a B.A.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 30, 2009

But however it happens, when a track closes or a state no longer races dogs, I'm pleased as that's one more step toward freeing this gentle breed from (at least this form of) exploitation. -- Cartoonist is Pudge O'Mahoney of the Patriot Ledger. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters.

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Greyhounds Massachusetts Ethics Industry 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food.

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Animal Person

APRIL 12, 2009

But I didn't campaign for a presidential greyhound for exactly the same reason Obama's decision was disappointing: it glorifies pure breed dogs. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. They can say that the puppy was needing to be re-homed, therefore it's like adopting from a rescue group.

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Puppies Obama Greyhounds Breeders 100

Animal Person

APRIL 16, 2009

Perhaps if there were a heartfelt message followed by action that supported it, no matter what breed were rescued, adoptions would increase. But perhaps if there were a heartfelt message followed by action that supported it, no matter what breed were rescued, demand for that breed from wherever people could get them would increase.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This isn't to say that Feldstein hasn't or won't write about topics interesting to animal rights advocates (such as Breed Specific Legislation), but the mere existence of the two should get people thinking. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. What do you think about the new addition to Change.org?

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Animal Welfare Welfare Pit Bulls Animal 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. There is no place that compares to Maine with its rocky shorelines, freezing waters populated by wintering alcids, offshore islands filled with nesting Atlantic Puffins, mixed and boreal forests (the most forested state in the U.S.,

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

It is still early spring and the leaves are small, not fully developed, so we manage to see them too, and we did it very ethically, without provoking a response by the mobile phone. There are a few spots where entering the heronry is allowed and the birds breeding in that section seem to be habituated to the visits.

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Greece Pelicans Breeding Buffalo 161

Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

The marketing of an operation of breeding and slaughtering sentient nonhumans as a family farm (here, Bell straddles the line) is supposed to trigger some kind of compassion for the humans. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights factory farms family farms. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm.

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Gestation Crates Farming Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened.

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Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

And without their well-run breeding programs, many exotic species really could soon disappear from Earth for good. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.

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Circus Animals New York City Elephants Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Our guide through the woods and towns of Indiana is one Nathan Lochmueller, who looks back to tell the tale of a coming of age that involves a lot of crawling through the woods on breeding-bird surveys, a lot of beer, and a few scrapes with implacable forces like the law, armed KKK members, and snapping turtles.

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Turtles Indiana New York Ethics 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I was chatting with Gordon about this and we discussed how drones could be a safer way to get photos of birds or document birds for breeding surveys, but he was quick to point out, “You and I already have an idea of what a safe distance would be to test that out with an active bald eagle nest. What if the bird attacks?

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g.

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

Horse-drawn carriages and breeding and racing horses and using them to play polo or to schlep kids around is an insult to horses. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Horses have done enough for us, and most of it against their will. Let's leave them alone.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

I don't disagree with Herbert, but what if I wrote: Most people don't want to hear about the capacity of nonhumans to experience pain, pleasure, boredom or frustration, and President Obama would rather walk through fire than do anything other than acquire a pure breed puppy or pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving (though that one remains to be seen).

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Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Of course, there's the pure breed discussion as well as the breeding of dogs, in general, discussion (most frequent after the racing discussion for me). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. All of this, just from walking through the neighborhood 4-5 times/day. So there you have it: greyhounds are seeds, too.

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Vegan Greyhounds Sanctuary Animal Sanctuary 100

Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

This is an interesting moment in the story: Paragallo said Thursday that he had given the horses away to a Florida-based breeder, whom he did not identify, in December with the agreement that he could breed the mares back to one of his stallions based in New York or Florida. Tags: Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Horses Slaughter Slaughtered Neglecting 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

It’s an ethical dilemma: Let the eagles alone, with the risk that they may die out in 20 years, or film them with as minimal disturbance as possible, with the hope that the visuals will have an impact on people and help extend their existence. Apo near Davao City, PEC is the site of a Philippine Eagle conservation breeding program.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I then promptly completely caved in and bought Wellness ' new large breed, definitely nonvegan dry food (and I always soak kibble) that has 25% protein (Natural Balance Vegetarian has 18%, and all from non-animal sources) and I've started cutting some in just in case (I'll stop at 50%). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Tnr Vet 100

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

It moves society closer to the view that all forms of speciesist exploitation--from dog breeding to commercial fishing--are morally wrong (151). Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism. To combat speciesism and work toward justice for sentient nonhumans, we must change our minds, our language and our behavior.

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Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

(As you are likely aware, very few people can actually get through the film in one sitting, plus the first third, about "pets," sends the troublesome message that puppy mills are the problem, rather than breeding in general.) Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film.

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Vegan Puppy Mills Sanctuary Farm Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. These Blasts From The Past Queens Big Day: An Ethical Quandary and More Birds!

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Like this: Apparently it is ethically questionable to create a genetically modified chicken and then hatch it, so approval for that research wasn’t even sought at this stage. The chickens were done in before hatching. The chickens were done in before hatching. Here’s the thing.

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Alligators Chickens Research Birds 209

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The film Partitions (running time: 14 min) by Audrey Kali gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered. The farmer fails to note that the natural lifespan of pigs is 11-15 years and the natural lifespan of chickens is 5-11 years, depending on breed.

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Farming Humane Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

However young and healthy, captives judged inappropriate for exhibition or breeding are considered 'excess' and usually are 'unloaded' or killed. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75). Chance is so close! Please consider a gift.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

It wasn't long before The Humane Emperor came on the scene, and is still around, telling folks that with a little mental acrobatics you can include forcible breeding, captivity, separation of family, killing of day-old chicks, and of course, untimely death in the definition of "humane." That's respect. Photo from Flickr user gunp0wder.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. This one gives us a look inside the mind of the vivisectionist, Daniel Engber.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Here are the basic contents for each state guide: a flexibound cover, the ABA Mission Statement and Code of Ethics (I like that this is the first thing you see when you start perusing the books), Foreward by Jeffrey A. From the ABA Field Guide to Birds of Colorado. A generational ago, nobody knew any of that!”

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 230