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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

Nowadays, the numbers are being controlled through culling. Disappointingly, a very interesting area was closed off for the cows to rest (what about a nice stable?) The animals themselves identified as “civilised” and started a hunger strike in protest. Actually, no, they just starved to death for lack of care. It was awful.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

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When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." And the day-old calves. what if those were human babies?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

You also suggest that my proposal would result in shooting of bulls (male elk), as opposed to cows (female elk). It leaves the National Park Service full latitude to determine which elk should be culled. My proposal does no such thing.