10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. Also, do not smoke as it is not good for your health.

Birds 130

Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. Of course, this doesn’t bother the birds but it does bother people.

Birds 230

Birds New York City Fast Food Geese 230

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40