Animal Person
MAY 24, 2009
I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. Do the people who are so upset about the pig cull in Egypt realize that the pig cull happens every day, all around the world?
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 17, 2007
The National Park Service has announced a plan to cull the Rocky Mountain National Park elk herd with sharpshooters.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
On Egypt's Pig Cull. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language Animal Rights Animal Welfare Compassion in World Farming World Farming. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See. The PeTA I Knew and Loved, Sort Of. Not a change in the way they do things.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill.,
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Systematic cullings in the absence of feasible alternatives, therefore, may be morally permissible. It is worth noticing that my proposal does not rule out killings which have the effect overall of fostering the wants of the largest subset of some group like a wild herd where otherwise the wants of an even larger subset will be thwarted.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. 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. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise.
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