Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. Tags: Books Ethics. Not Eating Animals. That has to be good, I tell myself. Once your priority is justice, your message isn't "eating animals".

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. Then there is a gap of around 2,000 km (or 1,200 miles).

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I recently watched Earthlings and cried the whole way through.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. To suggest that eating one and not the other represents a conflict of ethics is preposterous. At one point during my year living in China, I ate dog. Jonathan Safran Foer's pup-in-cheek essay " Let Them Eat Dog " (Weekend Journal, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

Some people make the switch for ethical reasons, others for health reasons, others out of concern for the environment, and some for a combination of all these reasons. (As Consider, e.g., the traditional low animal-protein diets in rural China and the vegetarian diets of 15 million Jains.) metric tons per year?

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 26, 2008

I make animal plushies and donate 60% from each sale to AnimalsAsia 's China Bear Rescue. :) My goal is to raise at least $1,000 this year, and you would be really helping me out by swapping links with me. :) Let me know if you're interested!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

.” This should make the bird somewhat unpopular with the socially rather conservative Chinese government – maybe the birds in China do not show this behavior in order to adapt to local customs? On the other hand, given China’s low birth rate, they might serve as an example for the future.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 19, 2007

The horrific practice in China of skinning cats and dogs alive for their fur must go down as one of the worst cases of sustained mass cruelty to animals in human history. Every year, more than 2,000,000 cats and dogs are skinned alive in China for their fur.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 22, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Virus Spreading Alarm and Deadly Pig Disease in China ” (Business Day, Aug. Indeed, if public sympathy is changing in China regarding how we treat animals raised and killed for food, as it is here in the United States, then we can only expect future improvements in the welfare of farm animals. 16, 2007

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

About Dot Earth By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today. You can find his recent post on the current state of whale hunting here.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Chris from Beijing works to get books translated for the groups he works with, and I can say for certain that you'd never take your access to books for granted again if you heard what he has to go through to get books to China. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

One good acquaintance I could probably call a friend is an ethics professor who flies back and forth from Texas to China frequently argued in a group pertaining to bestiality. Tags: Ethics. He was the only one against it for religious reasons. Any takers for any part of that?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kai’s photos present a unique perspective on a very specific, under-birded area of China; you can view them on this blog, and, even more satisfying, you can view them in his book, Birds of Nanhui Shanghai , published in China in 2018 and available through NHBS, the international book distributor. teleconverter. by Kai Pflug.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And I don't think that converting one person at a time to veganism via my spectacular baking or my blogging is going to make up for the people of China and India rapidly increasing their consumption of animals. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Fortunately, barbets are fairly common in Yunnan, China, so it was not a particular disappointment. In fact, John MacKinnon (of “Guide to the Birds of China”) in a recent Shanghai presentation called it “not a real woodpecker at all”, and while he is wrong about that, I sort of see his point.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur." According to the press release, Macy's website went so far as to "identify" the materials used as "Nylon/faux fur/goose down."

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2008

Global warming is an animal ethics issue. s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are twice that of Europe and nearly 8 times that of China. As the planet warms, fragile habitats that countless animal species depend on for survival will be destroyed. As such, it is incumbent upon the U.S. to make radical reductions in CO2 emissions.

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