Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

It's humbling to experience all of this for the first time in my nearly 43 years, from the showering in the morning and donning fancy clothes and make up, to commuting with thousands of my closest friends, to having to hire people to walk my dogs and spend time with them because I'm not home during the day.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Chickens Animal 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. So why the hell do you continue to participate in the killing of chickens for food, yet cockfighting is no longer on your list?” All day long.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

One cannot produce eggs or dairy products on a large scale without the wholesale exploitation of animals. One might think that eggs and dairy products are still preferable to meat on the grounds that "At least I am not contributing to the unnecessary killing of animals" but that too is false. I replaced cow's milk with soy milk.

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. Not this one though.

Birds 198

Birds China Eggs Owls 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? Baby ducks and chickens s are the mensches of the bird world; they don’t spend all that time sitting there uselessly and constantly demanding attention.

Mammals 190

Mammals Turtles Eggs Fish 190

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. I traveled to the other side of the world just to see a chicken! Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. I wrote about the experience here.

2012 148

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 148

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

But in many cases, Frederick found that the claims of these vaunted but unthinking sources stood in contrast with his own experiences as both a falconer and keen observer of birds. Of course, this fanciful story had been devised to explain the absence of nests in Europe by this Arctic breeder, but Frederick dismissed it as nonsense.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113