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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

Animal Person

It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? No one will propose a ban on eating chickens because there's no conflict there. All they do thereafter is replace cows with chickens and pigs and fish.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

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. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. .

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. It is hard to imagine where a line can be drawn. Second, our food animals have co-evolved with us. David Peters New York, Nov.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

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. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? It flies on.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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