10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. The irony of the inclusion of the cow in The Girl Effect is that it swaps one form of slavery for another. Yesterday was World AIDS Day and I anticipated her doing a thoughtful program, which I think she did. Human slavery, of course.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. The members of his family have no objections; on the contrary, they rather relish the idea.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

We don't really get an answer for that one, but we do get to the real question, which Scott alludes to in graph #3: "So how do we bridge the gap between maximizing profit at the expense of an animal’s expression of its natural tendencies and treating livestock as we would the family cat?" What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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