10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

His modus operandi was essentially the same wherever he’d appear: first, he’d stand next the school entrance and wait while the school bus unloaded, then he’d make his way to the playground and play “tag” with the kids. Guardians of human health, and a pretty awesome bird species as well … what a package!

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

From plastics made from feather protein to diesel fuel made from fat to organic fertilizer made from poultry litter, the USA's top meat producers are developing new uses and markets for the animal parts that humans won't eat, says Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association in Alexandria, Va. Tags: morbid thoughts.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

Our primary concern is the advancement of investigative methodologies that lead to effective cures and treatments for human diseases. Tags: animal research.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

But more important, commenter Daniel Manahan could use some gentle education. Finally, there's an alert from Susan Hargreaves, who is a humane educator here in South Florida (via Trish). I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism.

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

You may hate to hear about this, but I do think that the animal-raising industries are going to have to reach some compromises with the Humane Society of the U.S. He adds that this is more than just a matter of voter education, given the $8 million spent by the California poultry industry fighting the proposition.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I do not believe that our war can be won by vegan education alone and that some day, the oppressors of humans, nonhuman animals and the planet are going to see the error of their ways and transition to a nonviolent, non-exploiting way of life. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Why the guilt? I am not a fundamentalist pacifist.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 29, 2010

American Humane and ARCH (Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti). Educating ourselves to the need, and how we can help, is part of the solution. There is great human need after these natural disasters and it is right to help where we can. Tags: guest post people helping animals. Offer your time. Spread the word…and pray.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2009

Others say that emotion is the only way to move humans to care about anything other than themselves. I think the best thing to do first is educate yourself about the issues. Tags: animal rights advocacy. And it's especially the case in animal rights advocacy. I'm really torn. You know your points and you lay them out.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. We can stop using animals and "allocate resources" to educate Homo sapiens worldwide to change their relationship to the animals around them.

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Animal Person

APRIL 2, 2009

The rabbits were produced, of course, by a rabbit mill that supplies "pet" stores with live creatures whom humans will purchase without having any idea of the conditions they were produced under. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. Pounds ) A pet store in Connecticut received a shipment of products last week. Products, meaning rabbits.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

H3N8 is the virus that causes flu in dogs, and while there are no known cases of a human catching the flu from their pet, it can be passed from dog to dog. Canine influenza is extremely contagious and while humans are not affected by this flu strain, they can unknowingly pass it from an infected dog to an unaffected dog.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture."

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 23, 2014

Educate yourself on your destination locale’s pet entry regulations, licensing regulations, and laws by contacting the State Veterinarian or State Department of Agriculture and the City Clerk’s office, local humane organization, or area animal control facility. Before the Big Day.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 24, 2009

Tags: events. The week will bring underscore community spirit as people come together on behalf of the animals across the entire region of our nation’s capital. Myers military and so much more! Precious lives will be saved and communities transformed during this incredible week.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.)

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Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Humane Treatment 100

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Despite some shared evolutionary history, wolf morality is different from human morality and also from elephant morality and chimpanzee morality" (19).

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2010

offers PurinaCare® Pet Health Insurance to pet owners in most states and promotes responsible pet care, humane education, community involvement, and the positive bond between people and their pets. Tags: guest post pet care. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, PurinaCare Pet Health Insurance, Inc.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

While breast cancer awareness month for people might be over, it’s important to realize that we humans aren’t the only ones affected by the disease. Tags: guest post pet care. In fact, I experienced it first hand when my pet rat developed breast cancer late in her life. Thanks to PurinaCare for sending them our way.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Mars Petcare is collaborating with the YMCA in 5 cities to start, to bring pet-friendly health and physical activity education and programming to communities. Mars Petcare and Human-Animal Interaction. Tags: events. It’s a great new new initiative to help people live a healthier life! New York City; Nashville, Tenn.;

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Pets New York City Portland Chicago 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Educate yourself on your destination locale’s pet entry regulations, licensing regulations, and laws by contacting the State Veterinarian or State Department of Agriculture and the City Clerk’s office, local humane organization, or area animal control facility. Before the Big Day.

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Pets Litter Medical Kennels 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2010

Told from the point-of-view of Rocky, an absolutely adorable rescued pug, this book will show children what it feels like to be a pet without a home; what the inside of a Humane Society looks like; ways to make sure your new pet feels at home, right away; and how animals tell us what they like and what they don’t.

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

As I've written previously, I never pushed him to go vegan, and now that he is I don't push him to do any vegan education. It's amazing to observe as someone learns about what we humans have done to this planet in such a short period of time, and how dire the situation really is. But that's me.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2009

Have fun with your human and canine friends while getting a chance to try out some new products from Purina! Nestlé Purina PetCare promotes responsible pet care, humane education, community involvement and the positive bond between people and their pets. Tags: events. Are you a dog owner who loves to party?

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Dogs St. Louis Branding Chickens 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As a vegan who believes we humans have no right to use other animals, my impulse is to believe that only books or films or other media with an abolitionist message is going to get more people to go vegan. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. As someone who's about to be a parent, I found him a bit worrisome.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 7, 2010

“As the annual Earth Day celebration begins, I am joining forces with Yesterday’s News, a wonderful eco-friendly product that takes items that have the potential to end up in the waste stream and turns them into a cat litter, for this fun Design Challenge to help educate millions of cat owners that going green is in fashion all year-round.”.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

I wonder how long it would take parents to complain if the Creative Cooks Culinary Center filled in the blanks for the kids and educated them about the lives of the animals they eat that some might not even realize were ever even animals? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. PS-The slide show includes children in aprons.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. Tags: Activism Language. What do you think?

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Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

Keep your pets tags on them at all times because you never know when disaster may hit. Most often pets are not allowed in these shelters due to reasons of human health safety. Include your VCA veterinarian’s name, clinic name and address and the information for a local emergency clinic.

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Pit Bulls Pets Shelters Medical 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

ADI’s Mission: To educate, create awareness, and promote the interest of humanity in the cause of justice, and the suppression of all forms of cruelty to animals wherever possible to alleviate suffering, and to conserve and protect animals and the environment. Tags: news people helping animals rescues webvideos.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Finding that decades of consumer education hasn’t slowed meat-industry growth or ecodestruction and that universities powerfully influence what people eat, RPA has been demanding that the colleges of agriculture at our LGUs stop forking over billions of dollars worth of training, research, and public relations to the meat industry.

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

As much as I don't like responding to comments that are hostile, they also demonstrate a lack of understanding/education/knowledge on the part of the commenter that perhaps, if remedied, might result in a different opinion. We are not ignorant of the exploitation of humans that often goes hand-in-hand with the exploitation of nonhumans.

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Vegan Lifestyle Fast Food Farming 100

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

From 2002-2005 I was heavily ensconced in a bird and waterfowl phase with sometimes daily drama of the life-and-death variety that led to my unintentional education about all things duck (Muscovies, in particular). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. My animal rescue-life has had many phases.

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Animal Person

JULY 9, 2009

Just that we humans can know one thing to our core, we can believe it entirely, and yet, we can do what basically is the opposite. Vegan education, in my experience, is a multi-pronged, multi-year effort if it's going to be sustainable. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. What does this mean?

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Vegan Cooking Vegetarian Ethics 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

We give them human names and provide them with the same amenities we enjoy as humans. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. Let's deconstruct: Paragraph #1: Americans don't know where their food comes from and what it takes to produce it.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2009

We send Animal Therapy teams to hospitals, nursing homes, Hospices and even private homes for Animal assisted Therapy (where we have animals go to individuals or groups) or Animal Assisted Activities (Where we have an animal involved with the actual therapy of an individual that is observed and documented by a Health/Human service professional.)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. How well does W educate people to the value of G?

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40