10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

And there was this poor little hawk, in the path of an oncoming tornado, but with no Toto to keep him company. Solid food would have killed him, as he’d have used up the last of his fading energy trying to digest it. Kurt says he can catch him!” said Nance. All three arrived ten minutes later. THEN we’ll kick him out.

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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. 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.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. 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.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I liked the way the film connects oil use to an oil company. There was no meaningful discussion about our inefficient use of resources (grain and water) in the feeding of animals to kill to feed people. It's about the people and the land. A young woman in Nigeria (can you say Shell Oil?) But they dismiss food.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

After witnessing hours if not days of senseless killing, someone finally musters the courage to take on the killer and delivers what has to be a devastating blow. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S.,

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? Reidel Publishing Company, 1978], 37-45, at 44-5 [italics in original]) Is love to diminish inversely as the square of the distance? One thinks also of unborn generations. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim [Dordrecht, Holland: D.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also threatened by cultural beliefs that lead to killing them because they’re seen as harbingers of death and bad luck. Here is a favorite paragraph from a field trip to a forested mountain north of Charlo, Montana in the company of an ORI team: This is beautiful Great Gray territory. They are also hunted.

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