10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2009

China of course! From the African Conservation Foundation.the story was actually published earlier in August, but still worth posting A shocking undercover journey reveals that a poaching cartel known as ‘The Crocodile Gang’, led by Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa, is slaughtering rhinos and elephants to fulfill ‘requests’ for horn and ivory.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

The photographers are listed in the front, under Acknowledgements, and are a mix of colleagues, researchers, tour guides, professional photographers, and of course, Gorman himself. Illustrations also include distribution maps, spectogramsr illustrating vocalizations, and, in the last chapter, full-page artwork from 19th-century publications.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

There’s no other day on the calendar more associated with birds, but the Wild Turkey – the undisputed star of the day – owes this dubious honor to being slaughtered, cooked, and served as the culinary centerpiece for this annual holiday feast.

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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.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered. For all of us.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Of the dozen gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” seven are birds: the seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and – of course – a partridge in a pear tree.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

And of course if you correct someone and say "Dead Turkey Day," you're "buzzkill," or imposing your beliefs or being judgmental. So I might say, "I fail to find humor in the enslavement, rape, torture and slaughter of anyone. The conversations with family and friends have already begun about "Turkey Day." Not humans, not animals."

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

TD, of course, wasn't too keen on hot dogs for nutritional reasons at the very least. First of all, anyone who has taught The Princeton Review's SAT, LSAT or GRE courses knows that answers with the word "everything" in them are rarely correct. Slaughter in moderation. I think it was about hot dogs. Or child molestation. ".

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? 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. And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. And of course what we do is about the issues. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! Parker uses the term "anti-modern farming activists," which is new to me.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Of course, you're supposed to hop onto the following train of thought: These are good people. What you're supposed to be buying into is the idea that if a family owns a farm it is somehow qualitatively different (and of course, better) than a farm that isn't family owned. You see midwestern folk in overalls with tired faces.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

And of course, many self-identified vegetarians eat fishes and/or chickens. The unnecessary killing of a terrified animal who was likely fighting for his life, becomes he lined up to be slaughtered so you may dine on his flesh. Of course the chicken is not recognizable from the one we just saw and loved. Oooo, pick me, pick me!

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. It's a thoughtful question I wish more people would ask. Here is my opinion. There are many gruesome pictures too.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

We can, of course, count wild, native, species. Of course, there are a lot more rules that apply to both birds that can and can’t be counted, and one of the most entertaining ways to get a bunch of birders to make a Facebook discussion thread go on forever is to innocently ask a question about some esoteric aspect of listing rules.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it).

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e.,

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49).

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

Cain=farmer=evil murderer; Abel=slaughtered animals=victim/good son. Of course, she teaches Jake the prayer that makes killing the animal all better. The fact remains, however, that if you don't need to kill anyone to survive, no amount of storytelling and mythmaking (or myth borrowing/co-opting) around that slaughter excuses it.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story. The conclusion I'm left making is that the person saying "Because it tastes good" thinks that it's funny that a sentient being was raped (in the case of cows), mutilated (chickens, pigs and others) and slaughtered (everyone) because people find them tasty.

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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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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor. But no LGU has yet put its meat-industry courses on the course of ultimate extinction.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

The high point of scouting was of course seeing a bunch of birds, something guaranteed at Eilat, especially during March. Migrants will be around but their hormone driven urges to get back to the breeding grounds for procreation make them less than reliable on count day.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

if they are "farmed" or slaughtered in a certain way). Of course, the precise nature of the film is crucial to its success as a vehicle for conversion, and I'm sure you've all seen and perhaps even participated in debates about Earthlings and its degree of efficacy.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. Of course one could be a vegetarian on both grounds, and object to anything either kind of vegetarian objects to. Nor could he object to the painless killing of wild animals. Philip E.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The Nimans move him, as do several other farmers, including one who "apologizes to his animals as they are sent off to slaughter" (244), as if that's any consolation to someone whose life you are about to take when you don't need to. Here are some of my favorite quotes: "For thousands of years, farmers took their cues from natural processes.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

And most of us, of course, just don't know about this. How do we know but what, once we got used to a vegetarian diet, we would find that our pleasure is scarcely diminished at all? Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror!

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I long for the realistic hope that one second will pass without torture and slaughter and enslavement, and I know perfectly well that that second, despite Earth Days and Earth Hours and Meat-Free Days, isn't going to happen. So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. People are simply too selfish. What to do.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Dr. David Jentsch says to his colleagues "your silence will no longer protect you" and his community of vivisectionists has decided to have a pro-torture and slaughter (i.e., Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans." Animal Testing ").

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. . What a horror! What a disaster!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

We think about what type of living conditions we want for our pets (often the same as those we want for ourselves), and try to apply that to every animal when in reality this may not be the best course of action.". At this point of course I'm waiting to hear how he views "farm" animals differently.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. Stenholm is a spokesperson for the "Horse Welfare Coalition"—a quintessential illustration of doublespeak, for the Horse Welfare Coalition is an inappropriately named organization that is working to keep horse slaughter legal in the United States.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. Of course, I realize that this reintroduction is a huge undertaking and it is a complex project with many moving parts.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Image by Adam Riley The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama was the first Westerner to make landfall in the province.

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