Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It broke my heart to see the suffering that is documented in the enclosed video", wrote Anderson, in a letter sent on behalf of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Deka, director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after watching a video allegedly exposing animal cruelty at the New Delhi centre. "It

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

She has clearly decided that for her baiting is not away to get a photo, and if one does get a photo that way then the ethical thing to do is to state that, much as one should do with captive animals. And as Ron Dudley shows, it goes beyond live mice, as he documented a whole chicken being left out by someone to attract raptors.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. The affecting cloak-and-dagger documentary “The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Is it purely a matter of months or years for you? Do you discuss veganism or environmentalism frequently?

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. Code of Ethics: The ABA has established a Code of Birding Ethics to promote responsible birding practices.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. Birding during the spring is the educational moment for explaining migration and fallout.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

This rapidly growing site is to be a global resource on alternative methods, the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement), animal ethics, and animal care, with hyperlinks to related Web sites and databases. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb. The FOIA entitles you to information on how the government is spending your tax dollars.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

In a study first published in 2011, my colleagues and I showed how chimpanzees used in the biomedical and entertainment industries suffered from PTSD and other mental disorders – much like the psychiatric conditions I’ve documented in human torture survivors."

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Florida is by Bill Pranty, central Florida resident, author of A Birder’s Guide to Florida , now in its fifth edition, plus numerous articles documenting the distribution of birds in Florida, current chair of the ABA Checklist committee, and an active member of the Florida Ornithological Society.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 13, 2008

To the Editor: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes about the horrors of a kosher slaughterhouse where “news reports and government documents have described abusive practices.” But he says almost nothing about reports of how badly the animals were treated there. Religious slaughter is still slaughter. Gretchen Berger New York, Aug.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Otherwise you'd create a word document on your computer and enter your posts in that instead of on a platform designed for anyone in the world who has access to the Internet to see. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Blogging veganism writing. Every blogger's goal is to have their blog read, right?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. She’s written a series of nature activity books, and I Love Birds!: © 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal. I Love Birds!:

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

An 8-minute film documenting the horror of perfectly healthy horses being slaughtered for no good reason can be viewed here. While we wait for the ruling, hundreds of innocent horses will be killed in true horror-film fashion—their heads smashed by captive-bolt pistols, their throats slit by the slashing knives of Cavel employees.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The result is a really good read, a suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like a novel yet also probes real-life questions focused on the purpose of natural history museum collections and the ethics of closely gated “hobbyist” communities. And, well researched.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The extensive introductory material explains how The Australian Bird Guide was constructed; gives a tutorial on Identifying Birds, including bird topography diagrams; a section for beginning birders on Birding in Australia (where, when, equipment, ethics, documentation); and, as if making up for the lack of a strictly taxonomic organization, A Guide (..)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kai understands that traditional bird portraits are beautiful (and offers many), but that understanding and truly appreciating birds comes from observing and documenting behavior and habitat. This would place the precarious conservation position of the Nahui wetlands within a more informed context. teleconverter.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

McWilliams’s column reminds us of the scientific findings documented out in Livestock’s Long Shadow , the Food and Agricultural Organization’s 390 page report on the environmental impact of meat production. Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics produced are fed to farmed animals to prevent (not treat) disease.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

Here was an ethical dilemma: The bivalve or the warbler? But, it is a documented bird threat! I suppose that if this was a larger bird it could have walked away with the mussel on its toe, but this was a Prothonotary Warbler, 14 grams in weight, and the mussel had essentially crippled him. It is a filter feeder, not a bird eater.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. The Argument from Actual Practice Still, it may be objected that this is to overlook actual practice. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

For a detailed and photo-documented description of how these highly intelligent, highly sensitive dogs are killed, see here. To see an undercover video documenting how these innocent dogs are inhumanely killed, see here.

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