Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl. And how much land would be required to contain ranches like the one owned by Ms.

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New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

By far the most commonly seen bird on most of the islands in the region – and the only one every islander can identify on call – is Gallus gallus (the feral chicken). Also frequent escapees (or very free ranging domestics) are guinea fowl and to a lesser extent a number of other gamebirds up to and including peacocks.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Without large crowds to feed this year, many households are shopping for the littlest turkeys they can find – a rare commodity, as it turns out, given the unprecedented demand for small gobblers this year – and failing that, opting for another fowl entirely.

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2018 Fowl Turkey California 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Seattle doesn’t root just for the Seahawks … study reports that Emerald City residents (and those of Berlin, Germany) find common birds like finches and corvids worth opening their wallets for. Now you have.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? But what about microorganisms?

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

However, he went far afield to find a more familiar fowl. I traveled to the other side of the world just to see a chicken! Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 143

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. But is there a bird more emblematic of France than the humble – yet decidedly exotic – farmyard chicken? A literal case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost, perhaps, but the result was the same. So I survived.

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2016 France Chickens Fowl 101