10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Larks, for example.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 20, 2013

According to The Humane Society , around 18% of all reported instances of animal abuse involve cats. It is perfectly normal to see the following behaviors in a rescue cat once you bring them home: Running away from you and other humans. The Difficulties Of Re-homing Abused Cats. Hiding, often for days on end.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. But special.

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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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I thought your post from the other day about birders simply introducing themselves to each other was a fantastic example of this sort of change. Every human does. And every organization, especially a membership-based one, needs its critics and does well to consider and address their criticisms. Nobody else will do it for us.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. Many of today’s most prominent religions have perpetuated this view.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

For example, cooking may entail shopping that may involve navigating through heavy traffic, standing in long and crowded store lines, choosing items to buy and spending money. The end of the year can be emotional for people who remember and miss departed loved ones. They have a natural ability to sense their humans.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

For example: 1. i) Do attend socially conscious circuses like Cirque de Soleil that exclusively feature human performers. (j) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals. A list of Humane Charities is available here. Wishing you a Happy Healthy Humane New Year! Do it for the animals.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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