Animal Person
AUGUST 12, 2010
In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Here are the sentences that I want to bring attention to: The family of Irv Bell, 64, has been growing hogs in Zanesville, Ohio, since the 19th century.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds. Or the absence of legal protection.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. She lives at Indigo Hill, an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio with her husband, Bill Thompson III, their children Phoebe and Liam, and their Boston terrier, Chet Baker.
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