10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Given its veneration of Chianina beef, it’s hardly surprising that Tuscany has brought forth the world’s first celebrity butcher. An avian butcher at work: Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ) depicted by Dutch bird illustrator J.G.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
There would then be three options: 1) re-home them to people who will keep them inside; 2) drop them off at an animal shelter as far away as possible; or 3) humanely euthanize them. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. It’s time for this to end.
Critter News
MARCH 7, 2012
horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.” The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S.
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. Read the complete article at pantagraph.com.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2008
But this question of Butchery is not merely one of kindness or unkindness to animals, for by the very facts of the case it is a human question of no slight importance, affecting as it does the social and moral welfare of those more immediately concerned in it. Henry S.
Animal Person
APRIL 7, 2009
Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”. Butcher plainly speaks of the use of horses and that those not usable perhaps should be killed. Financially). It’s just an option for horses that are unusable.
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