10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

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. But what do I know about the taste preferences of Cattle Egrets. While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers.

Birds 130

Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

I’m not sure why all the birds scattered at its approach, Frigatebirds are known for stealing the catch of other birds, not for killing elegant, cinnamon-chested Avocets, but scatter they did and only a couple of hundred came back down. I love Roseate Spoonbills, so I loved the Rookery at Smith Oaks, it’s as simple as that.

Houston 200

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 200

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

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." It is true that millions have been raised under false pretenses, but the reality is once again the opposite of what Parker believes. I wish their mission was to end animal agriculture.

Veal Crate 100

Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

This sort of question can also be raised without benefit of hypothetical examples from future genetic engineering. Suppose someone enjoys drinking the blood of cattle and hogs. Suppose further that such blood is obtained without killing the animal and without causing the animal pain.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Suffering Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. Killing a hog can be avoided. But the question remains.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40