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How to Bird the Colibri Cafe at Cinchona, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Nevertheless, techniques, recommendations, and ethical behavior are often suggested, these are some ideas on how to watch birds at the Colibri Cafe: Claim a seat out back, in the outdoor part of the cafe. However, if you can’t get a seat out back, no worries, just sit inside while enjoying home-cooked country fare.

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? How about an ethical adventure ? But I bet anything doesn't go.

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On Mixing Bowl and Vegan Education

Animal Person

From today's Publisher's Weekly : In January, Meredith Corporation quietly launched Mixing Bowl , a social networking site about cooking. Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages. Tell your favorite vegan cookbook authors!

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On "Cheating" and Cookbook Authors

Animal Person

Recommendations included: know the people who produced your food, get out of the supermarket (go to a farmer's market), and cook at home more (especially junk food, as if you had to make your own french fries you'd eat a lot fewer of them). Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. It was full of Michael Pollan, Food Inc.,

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On Flourless Cakes and Injuries

Animal Person

I began my journey by discovering something you all probably know, which is that you can substitute cooked black-eyed peas or adzuki beans for flour, like in the recipe for the above vegan flourless chocolate cake. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters. I may never use flour again.

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On Vegan Grenades

Animal Person

And four long years later he said: "The only reason I still eat animals is because you keep buying them and cooking them for me." I'm no prize to be married to, but I do shop and cook and bake and forward links from The Discerning Brute. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. That was some very lengthy lag time.

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On "The Road" and Humanity

Animal Person

They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed. Tags: Ethics Film Language " animal rights "The Road movie review. But the line that delineates good guys from bad guys goes deeper. Bad guys treat humans the way they'd treat animals. They hunt them down in "the wild."

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