Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

There's no "compassion" in the process. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. It's cruel. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Photo by Paul Huber.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Nobody needs to eat them.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Just ask Bill Taddicken, director of the Lillian Annette Rowe Sanctuary on the Platte River in Kearney. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250