10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

I can’t tell you exactly how I brokered this meeting between these titans of industry and a team from the AOS, either. Of course it involved subterfuge, and bribery, and Jonathan Franzen at a crossroads at midnight. But the details must remain nebulous. “It’s about conservation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

And I really would have like to know what happens to that land when the industry goes. Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

But yet every single day in Ireland there are greyhounds all over the country been dumped into rivers with rocks tied to their little feet and their ears cut off so that they are non identifiable, this is the Irish greyhound racing industry at it's best when they no longer want the ones who are 'useless' or 'unwanted'.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

While some have suggested the egg industry should police itself, history shows that industries based on the backs of the disenfranchised do not voluntarily soften the suffering of those they exploit—all the more so when the victims are millions of hens the public never sees.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. Fox’s scientific expertise, which never allows her to describe bird behavior without placing it in a specific ecological context, is framed by a cinematic eye and a lyrical frame of mind.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

It was completely unharmed as the hunter had climbed a tree to catch it, so we agreed to purchase the poor animal and after taking a few images and ensuring the hunter was gone, we released it and with mixed emotions watched as it climbed high into a massive tree. What are the chances of survival for these shy forest denizens?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof’s column broke my heart. But one consequence that Mr. Kristof doesn’t note is that meat prices would certainly be substantially higher.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. But the entire industry is questionable. Finally, what Engber doesn't entertain is the notion that no animal--not one--needs to be in a laboratory and above all not one should be in a laboratory.

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