10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

In the publishing world, the Audubon series became famous as proof that packaging firms like Chanticleer could work successfully with respected publishing firms and the company went on to package many other titles for Knopf, including, in 2000, a new field guide called The Sibley Guide to Birds. (If These are all informative and current.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

A few minutes later my avian company was replaced by a haggard-looking dude with a massive camera setup, his arms covered in cuts. Birding Bird Call Playback birder''s etiquette ethics I Am Birder' Not long ago, my dear colleague Seagull Steve (Global Birder Ranking System’s U.S. #7) 7) had a blog post that got me thinking.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted the initial investigation[2] that exposed the apparent cruelty at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, an inconspicuous rural lab funded by large pharmaceutical companies to test insecticides and other chemicals used in companion animal products.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

But there are other scenarios, such as some that PCRM has suggested in the past, that do make sense; where the goal is to alter policy within a company regarding, say, research using animals when that's not required. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. No, because their entire business is based on using animals.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

It included a video that a production company took with a drone in our park’s corridor. Then there are the other uses and a question of ethics: Let’s say you know where Kirtland’s Warblers or Whooping Cranes are nesting and you want to document it with a drone…is that harassment? What if the bird attacks?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. McDonald’s, are you listening?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2011

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. 414 [italics in original] [first published in 1907; 1st ed. published in 1874])

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Kennedy himself admits he was the one at fault; thankfully, Rettig and company take extreme pains not to disturb the parents or eaglet in the newer project. Thanks to the film footage that has been preserved, we can see the attack as it happens, see the eagle gouge the motorcycle helmet he was wearing.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2011

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. Intuitional moralists of repute have maintained this latter view: I think, however, that Common Sense is disposed to regard this as a hard-hearted paradox, and to hold with Bentham that the pain of animals is per se to be avoided.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 10, 2012

Here is a New York Times blog post about companion animals.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 156 [italics in original; footnote omitted] [first published in 1930]) Note from KBJ: There are four categories: (1) right and morally good (i.e., The drawing of a rigid distinction between the right and the morally good frees us from such confusion. (W.

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Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

I did know that such companies steal water (and oil) from local people in other countries, promising them improved access or health or housing, and I did know of the very, very dark side of dams (particularly the Three Gorges Dam in China, with its environmental ravaging and displacing of over a million people). Drink Tap Water!

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. 30 [italics in original] [first published in 1907; 1st ed. published in 1874])

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

There is one member of this group who works for a pharmaceutical company. She said that there were guidelines on how to treat animals and that, in medical ethics, they are considered "sacrifices." I've been with the group for a while and it's not bad. She is a practicing Catholic. That's all fine, except for one thing.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Biotech Company to Auction Chances to Clone a Dog ” (news article, May 21): Cloning animals to “replace” treasured companions is a boondoggle. Kathy Guillermo Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., May 21, 2008

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. I was surprised to find that this is a hardcover book, a choice made by the publisher, Page Street Publishing, a relatively new company, whose books are distributed by Macmillan. Birding during the spring is the educational moment for explaining migration and fallout.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

June 19, 2014 The writer is vice president, corporate communications, for Feld Entertainment, parent company of Ringling Bros. Rather than rely on PETA’s rhetoric, circus fans should come and see for themselves how all our animals are thriving at the Greatest Show on Earth. STEPHEN PAYNE Vienna, Va., and Barnum & Bailey.'

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

One then proceeds, however, as one will, to systematize and minimize one's ethical axioms by reducing some causally to others. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978], 37-45, at 44-5 [italics in original]) Insofar as our moral standards were shaped by evolution for fostering the survival of the race, a concern for the unborn was assured.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Only then will these companies “do the right thing,” if only to ensure their continued survival. But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. Starting today, I’m no longer eating ground beef.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This week, Bon Appétit Management Company vowed that by 2015, none of the three million pounds of pork we serve a year (including 800,000 pounds of bacon) will come from hogs confined in gestation crates. FEDELE BAUCCIO Chief Executive, Bon Appétit Management Company Palo Alto, Calif., That sounds like a win-win to us.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For example: Does Kristof own stock in a rival company?) Kristof should address SeaWorld''s argument, not question its motives. How would he like it if his readers questioned (or speculated about) his motives? Charity requires that good (or at least benign) motives be imputed to arguers. Cynicism is the imputation of bad motives.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Drug-resistant infections are by no means rare. Twenty percent of people who get salmonella have a drug-resistant strain. last year—more than prostate and breast cancer combined.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 17, 2008

If you like chocolate, you may want to consider purchasing it from this company.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

July 13, 2010 To the Editor: Today tens of thousands of American farmers don’t even own the livestock they raise, and the conditions they raise animals in are dictated to them by a handful of extremely powerful companies that are concerned only with the bottom line. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Yet, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently allowed companies to slap a "naturally raised" label on meat and meat products that come from animals whose upbringing was far from natural. Cramped crates aren't natural living conditions for calves and sows.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2011

Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 137 [first published in 1930]) Note from KBJ: Since the concepts of desert and good or bad disposition do not apply to animals (who are not moral agents), their pleasure is intrinsically good and their pain intrinsically bad.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 19, 2006

We are an animal welfare group working for animals in India— www.hopeandanimal.org we have tie up with a US based company for fund raising—If you buy pet products from www.petmedusa.net 10% of sale proceeds are donated to our organisation—Pls Bid and buy the product. with regards, Praveen Ohal

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

They are also endangered by a loss of habitat, as energy companies encroach on more and more of their territory for oil and gas operations. Because polar bears are at the top of the marine food chain, their bodies accumulate persistent organic pollutants that disrupt their reproductive systems. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Thinning Yellowstone’s Bison Herd ” (news article, March 23): Yellowstone National Park bison, executed when they migrate outside the boundaries of the park, have plenty of company. Around the world, animal migrations are disappearing because of conflicts with development, agriculture and other human activities.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

10): Instead of encouraging efforts to improve food safety, you demonize a company that had the courage to invest in innovative technology proved to be effective in reducing dangerous pathogens. To the Editor: Re “ More Perils of Ground Meat ” (editorial, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The site specifically names Gardenburger as a company that does not used caged chickens to get the eggs for their products and links to Gardenburger's statement on the practice. Here is the link. Congrats on the new site launch, by the way.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

Instead of allowing companies to find ways to turn food a dog might reject into cheap human food, shouldn’t the U.S.D.A. By approving the revolting and often ineffective use of ammonia to sanitize the results of substandard meat processing, it has chosen the profits of big business over food safety for all Americans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

I’m not gong to go into the ethics and reasons behind why a zoo might want to, well, manage its stock. Several companies have become very good at working out what constitutes “clickbait”, identifying the types of stories that draw people in and giving them a suitably enticing headline.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. The answer is the proverbial loophole. One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S., but that leaves open the possibility of slaughtering horses for human consumption abroad.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the early 1940s, when Jim Tanner collected the funds to buy and protect the Singer Tract, the last stronghold of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker , the representative of the Chicago Mill and Timber Company told him boldly and openly that they “are not concerned, as you are folks, with ethical considerations.” “We

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Animal Ethics

JULY 30, 2007

Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 48-50 [italics in original; footnote omitted]) We have a tendency to think that not every duty incumbent on one person involves a right in another. (W. Ross, The Right and the Good [1930; repr.,

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