Critter News

APRIL 2, 2012

These dogs were rescued by Chinese activists before they could be slaughtered for meat. A good story from China for once. According to this article from the NPR site , such rescues are occuring more regularly as dogs are increasingly becoming pets.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. He often has insight into why something might be different in action than what I think in theory when it comes to China. But my initial reaction is that this is like Americans giving up "red meat." What do you think?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). My bout of anguish began a few weeks back on a wintry night in central China, in the restless megalopolis of Chongqing.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2012

Dempsey says if rumblings of a new plan by the giant Canadian horse meat packing company Bouvry Exports-Calgary to reopen the Florence Packing plant on Florence Road for equine slaughter are true, Stanwood soon might become better known as the region’s “Butcher Shop for Horses”.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2009

We believe the animals were destined to be sold to Asian countries for their meat, as well as their scales to be used as traditional medicine," the department's enforcement chief Saharudin Anan told AFP. Tags: wildlife crime Traditional Chinese Medicine trafficking china malaysia. pounds of pangolin scales. "We

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

In today's Dot Earth post " Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? ," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Tags: cambodia bush meat china monkeys endangered species.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.).

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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. Foer is saying that he made the decision to not eat "meat" for the various reasons he outlines, but you might make a different decision and that's okay.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The shark is thrown back because shark fins are often more valuable than the meat itself. For example, shark fin soup is a delicacy in most of Asia, especially China. In fact, dried shark fin can go for as much as $300 a pound or more. The fins are then utilized in a wide variety of ways, especially in areas of Asia.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. I suspect that meat consumption would decline dramatically under such a code; it would certainly make many of us less hypocritical. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

People apparently catch and eat Yellow-breasted Buntings because they think its meat has aphrodisiac properties ( source ), which leads to it being categorized as Critically Endangered. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Each variety of the real meat chicken jerky dog treats are made with very careful oversight, from the egg all the way to the finished product. Waggin’ Train Chicken Jerky Tenders - Made with real white meat chicken sourced exclusively from a single, trusted chicken supplier with operations in China which is part of a USA company.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! Running time: 12 Minutes.

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