Critter News
MAY 24, 2010
Pelican eggs were glazed with rust-colored gunk, and new hatchlings and nests were also coated with crude. Tags: birds marine life pelicans 2010 oil spill. Pelicans unable to fly due to being coated with oil. It's the Exxon Valdez all over again. It is unclear if the area can even be cleaned, or if the birds can be saved.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags. Between the adults and their eggs, the three of them killed 32 live albatrosses. Who suffers for these crimes?
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Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
Crowded and filthy conditions mean suffering for hens. How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68
Animal Person
JULY 26, 2009
There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought. Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I recently watched Earthlings and cried the whole way through. I call it VBM: Vegan Between Meals.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 8, 2009
If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal? These people abstain from eggs and dairy products the production of which involves suffering for the animals. Would the blood be analogous to milk or eggs?
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film climate change film review The Age of Stupid veganism. But they dismiss food.
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Another went out last Friday.
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