10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. It is probably all downhill from here.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. And here is the Collared Finchbill , who like me suffers from being less social than others. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. but on the one hand, this is not a sci-fi blog and I am not interested in science fiction (excluding of course Douglas Adams), and on the other hand, the answer from my side would be “no” anyway. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I am myself not so heroic. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One might of course defend the consumption of animal products, while opposing the eating of meat, on the ground that killing a steer, say, produces more suffering than separating a cow from her calf. Of course one could be a vegetarian on both grounds, and object to anything either kind of vegetarian objects to. Philip E.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering. Such a supposition seems ludicrous to me.

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