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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of July 2012)

10,000 Birds

In fact, I’m about ready to drop from exhaustion because of the 14th annual Chicken Inferno; here’s why… Details about the event will come later in the week, but for now I’ll tag Eastern Meadowlark as my Best Bird of the Weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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On The Respectful Emperor

Animal Person

Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. Yesterday I saw what could be the next such attempt in The Atlantic's " Last Clucks: The Death of a Chicken ," by Sara Lipka. the chicken waited with me, its head sticking through a gap in the top of the box. It was funny, maybe even cute."

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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Animal Person

And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration. But we can bring our story to that world.

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." When it comes to the legislation ( which may or may not mean anything for dogs and cats ), Cohen sides with the people who recognize that cats and dogs are no different from chickens and geese. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. The theory is sound.

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On "The Wild"

Animal Person

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. Tags: Ethics Language. The choice isn't the wild or the farm.

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On Vegan Devastation at PF Chang's

Animal Person

One manager told PETA Eats that most people prefer the vegetarian lettuce wraps over those with chicken. Everything else has chicken stock, oyster sauce or non-vegan sugar. It's probably more powerful if you were just there and have something to say about your "Dining Experience" (they ask which franchise and at what time you visited).

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

Then they yank the heads, slit the throats, and de-feather and gut the chickens. They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film Language. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,

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