Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,
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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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
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.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? But what about microorganisms?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2015
Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Indiana teacher raises the bar for newbie birders everywhere by finding the state’s first record of a Black-tailed Godwit. Have you ever seen two Hammerkop pretending to be bunk beds? Now you have.
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