Critter News
MARCH 22, 2011
Here's an article from the Telegraph regarding chickens feeling empathy. The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. I used to hate chickens as a child and thought they were irritating.
Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
More is at stake than just the comfort of chickens, though the well-being of 284 million U.S. Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. Or corporate net income. From the Clemson press release.
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Critter News
MAY 17, 2010
Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. It's not just a question of animal rights. Chickens that are used for KFC products are horribly treated. Komen Foundation. komen charities.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). You’re right, it is horrible!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station in Toronto had an extremely rare and beautiful Townsend’s Warbler x Black-throated Gray Warbler which was banded in April. Burrowing Owl Tai Haku liked Mike’s choice of a chicken in our original post but decided to do him one better. Bruce Wilson was excited by a hybrid wood-warbler.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2009
In recent years, MRSA has been found in retail cuts of chicken, pork, beef and other meats—a particularly worrisome trend since MRSA can be contracted simply by handling infected cuts of meat. are fed to farm animals. Just how prevalent is MRSA-infected meat? Nearly 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S.
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