10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. .”

New York City 181

New York City Birds Owls Fox 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. It flies on. Thank you for your efforts.

2011 240

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 240

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. If Loos thinks that animal agribusiness will win the argument on ethical grounds, he is sorely mistaken. The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40