Critter News
MARCH 30, 2010
It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison. This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. Compassion is perceived to hurt profits.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
These prescriptions are very important to Tuttle-Adams, who takes the perhaps radical approach that a bird’s welfare supersedes a birder’s ‘right’ to take a photograph. It’s as if Tuttle-White has gathered and organized so much rich educational material she didn’t know where to put it all.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
The League Against Cruel Sports believes that in the interests of raptor welfare, no further licences should be issued. But what really strikes me is the smell – fresh, clean and without comparison. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 11, 2008
If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. However, we do speak of the rights of such persons—their welfare-rights. Whether animals have welfare-rights depends upon the very perplexing question, which I shall not discuss, of their inclusion in the community and their relation to the social ideal.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Photographs are also used in specific sections, notably “common species useful for size comparison,” examples of birds with distinct silhouettes, and the Bonus chapter, 50 species that you won’t find in your backyard. Most of these photos are by photographers associated with the USFWS and Wisconsin Dept.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2009
The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. So if animal husbandry is to be prohibited, it should be on animal-welfare grounds, not environmental grounds. Force, coercion, and manipulation, by comparison, are inferior on each score.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
When he spends what seems like an eternity discussing cockfighting and the people who participate, mostly to set up the comparison to how the chickens we eat are treated and the lack of outrage over that, I respond, “What is wrong with you? You’re right, it is horrible! The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.
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