10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
The conversations with family and friends have already begun about "Turkey Day." And of course if you correct someone and say "Dead Turkey Day," you're "buzzkill," or imposing your beliefs or being judgmental. I haven't had a Thanksgiving with family members in years. Not humans, not animals."
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. I didn't have to do the slaughtering to know what it feels like to have participated in something for a good chunk of my life that wasn't right. For all of us.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Of course, what they are talking about and how they are changing their behavior is very frustrating for someone who doesn't believe we should be using animals at all. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights chicken slaughter language Sara Lipka The Atlantic veganism. People are talking. And acting.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story. But we can bring our story to that world. Because it tastes good.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? What about being torn from your family? Not to mention the reality that there is so much more involved in being bred for slaughter than pain, and none of that is addressed. This is where I'm confused. What about boredom and frustration? What about being raped?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).
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