Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. Where do people get that idea?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If birders are willing to spend so much money in the pursuit of birds, it seems some would be willing to spend some on protecting them as well…right? Shocking, I know. When I hear of the plight of some U.S. Some lucky birders have deep pockets, this is known.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Not every list has Great Tinamou on it. With the rise in birding tourism, bird lists for entire countries have also become increasingly important.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2013

This is another project for older kids, but its quite simple if you have the right tools. Then, use chicken wire to cover the openings in the dresser, and you’ve got a classy, personalized aviary that will better mimic the feeling of a home in the shady protection of a tree. Install a pet door.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. last year—28 million pounds—went to pigs, chickens, and cows, which in turn creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant super germs. 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

How far do we go in protecting them? Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from. Wolves eat sheep.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I Yeah right! I was wearing the lead x-ray apron and heavy raptor gloves, so I thought I was protected. They don’t love us like we love them, right?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 9, 2014

Notice the little bit of chicken by his paw. Surely he’ll grab that before he wanders away, right? Pretty boring, right? I did the same thing to the bottom right corner with a paw print cookie cutter. Not a chance. He doesn’t even care!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Even the most free-wheeling of birders don’t usually consider going to a zoo or a chicken farm a form of birding, but just because they choose to distinguish doesn’t mean they keep a list. It is not an attraction, it is maintained these days purely to protect valuable species. Counts for what, exactly? Or perhaps not.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? 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. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Why not just shoot the biggest one? It flies on.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Chickens enjoy being together in small flocks, sunning, dust bathing and scratching in the soil for food. 13, 2007

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Wicked, right? Screamers of all types are awesome, but of all of them, the Horned Screamer is the weirdest and perhaps most beautiful. The proposal from U.S.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The federal government needs to recommit itself to putting boots on the ground in America and elsewhere to inspect and protect our food supply. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. 21, 2008

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

By building nests out over the swamp, the birds benefit from the protection offered by the alligators in deterring predators such as raccoons and snakes. These Blasts From The Past Make Mine Mines Road Missing Birds on Staten Island What is the Chicken Inferno? Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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