Animal Person

MAY 29, 2009

less processed food and more fresh, organic fruits, veggies, grains and legumes), than I'm thrilled. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film Food and Drink Delray Beach Film Festival Food Inc. Nothing about its " Alliances " (or it's " Issues ") screams vegan, or even whispers it, but I shall reserve judgment. veganism.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2016

In the early years of the newly created 1934 Duck Stamp Act, the stamps were designed by commissioned artists, but in the 1940’s the selection process was opened up to the public in the form of a nationwide contest – the Duck Stamp Contest. ” Cartoon images by Ding Darling. Respect the routine needs of animals.”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

It would love to read more about the ethical considerations that go into using playback for research purposes and how federal rules against playback affect research design. For example, the authors explain ‘playback,’ a technique utilized in many of the studies they summarize and apparently in their own studies.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation. These are all informative and current.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Some birds are put next to each other to aid in the identification process, for example, falcons follow hawks. The book roughly follows American Ornithological Society taxonomic order; a version date or number isn’t given, but it’s probably the 2020 version, before the Big Reshuffle of New World Warblers.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Along with this ontogenetic reconstruction, the researchers also identified two genetic pathways that are associated with this developmental process. Like this: Apparently it is ethically questionable to create a genetically modified chicken and then hatch it, so approval for that research wasn’t even sought at this stage.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

And the much-larger question is the idea of animal ingredients versus non-animal ingredients that were processed using animal ingredients, and that of course expands, ad infinitum , into every area of our lives (e.g., Now, if you happen to know that non-vegan ingredients or processing took place, and you can easily avoid it, great!

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Animal Person

JANUARY 2, 2010

I think I'll join today, as I'm not sure I can make a fair judgment on the process and the structure (and the success, whatever that means) from the outside. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Religion. It's officially Day 2 for Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB), and I'm watching carefully. Just a thought.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

And with everything our brains are processing and attempting to cope with, we need all the help we can get. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. Meditation isn't instant enlightenment or equanimity. It is, however, a tool that has demonstrated, positive effects on the human brain.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 13, 2010

It's common for men--and women--to be wary about adoption, and in particular about the bonding process. The adoption process isn't easy for vegans, and it's less easy for atheist vegans who don't think the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks in the developed world in 2010. Tags: Activism Ethics. But obviously it's possible.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Many vegans also believe that bringing people onto this planet isn't ethical, but I'm more of the school that says that if you have the urge to parent, having a biological child isn't in opposition to veganism.

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Animal Person

MAY 16, 2009

Both are heavy on mockery, but when you look at the process of the acceptance of an idea, that period of mockery is a sign that things are moving along. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. It was there that I learned about The Goodes a couple of weeks ago. And it was there that I learned about " Dating a Vegan " at Koldcast TV.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Hashimoto’s prints and water color bird portraits differ in materials and style from Harper, but she shares with him a talent for portraying common birds in a lively, accessible, yet new way that belies the artistic processes employed to create the finished image. I’m one of those people who love to browse in art supplies stores.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. But special.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. Tags: Ethics Language. In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. Some days you just can't win.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?

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Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

Do you use the idea of "evil" in your thinking and processing of animal rights and veganism? Tags: Ethics Language. Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway? Is evil an excuse we make for people?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The film Partitions (running time: 14 min) by Audrey Kali gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered. In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle).

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat, however, purchased at the supermarket, externally packaged and internally laced with petrochemicals, fattened in feed lots, slaughtered impersonally, and, in general, mechanically processed from artificial insemination to microwave roaster, is an affront not only to physical metabolism and bodily health but to conscience as well.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And no matter how special we claim horses are, they're only special if they're still worth something (to us. Financially). Then take a subsequent sentence--a quote by Representative Edward B.

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

Maybe sugar processed with bone char isn't worth boycotting a restaurant over. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. And they're all pretty obvious. As for the less obvious (gelatin in tires? didn't know that), there's only so much you can do, and each person has to draw their own line in the sand. Maybe it is.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. as is the humane ethic. as is the humane ethic. On the left side, from top to bottom, distinguish between wild and domesticated organisms.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights animal snuff films free speech Supreme Court Vamsee Juluri veganism. Need it be gratuitous to be offensive? What do you think?

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

Someone has to be very, very committed to learning and to challenging their thought processes to read a book they know is in direct contrast to the way they think. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film. I'm not saying it cannot or does not happen (e.g., I still hear people say they went vegan after reading Peter Singer).

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Animal Person

JANUARY 20, 2010

Charles the lame greyhound doesn't process grains well at all. Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. No change in anything about her, though I do think she's a bit perkier. Violet the diabetic greyhound does very well as a vegan as her recent blood work demonstrated. He never has.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

Vegans are people who don't eat any animal products, and that includes foods that have been processed with sugar that is made with bone char. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. S: There's only one thing on our menu that's vegan. It's the Buddhist in me, I guess.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

There's no "compassion" in the process. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. Stephanie's post about " The Compassionate Hypocrite " on Saturday reminded me of what Catherine Friend and other " compassionate carnivores " are doing in addition to twisting the definition of compassionate beyond recognition. It's cruel. No argument here.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

What's interesting to me today, however, is the process of "the flip" (my term). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. ORIGINS includes items I didn't know about, and I've read far more about misconceptions of English than the average person. The flip is when, for instance, the word "bad" comes to mean "really good."

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

Riddle me this: If you're in camp #3, do you think it's bad to pursue personhood for individual species, or is it just something you're not going to spend your time on because of the various problems with the process (e.g., Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. There are currently 112 comments on this article.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

“Ethics” includes a lengthy discussion on playback. Updates: One of the best features of David Sibley’s guides is that he looks at them as an ongoing process. Introduction: The Introduction has many of the same headings as the 2003 Introduction, but has been completely updated and rewritten.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The general premises about natural reactions do not yield ethical conclusions. Even if sanitary conditions were improved, the sight of tons of peanuts being ground and large vats of peanut butter being processed might have a depressing effect on one’s desire for a peanut butter sandwich. But the argument so construed is weak.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

While this tragedy will increase calls for sorely needed government regulation, the real answer lies in the hands of each one of us: buy your burger from a local butcher who processes his ground beef daily on the premises. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

April 9, 2009 To the Editor: In making the personal decision of where to place ourselves in our ethical relationship with animals, it is important to evaluate the reality of our words. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., They deserve recognition and support for offering Americans an alternative to meat raised in confined spaces.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

Snakes may die during the capture and transport process, or they may be housed inhumanely in a small aquarium they can barely fit into. There is a list of human victims of captive snakes, including a 2-year-old girl who was strangled in her crib by a pet Burmese python who had escaped from its enclosure.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

Perhaps simplifying the whole process would eliminate the need for multiple inspections, saving the U.S.D.A. By approving the revolting and often ineffective use of ammonia to sanitize the results of substandard meat processing, it has chosen the profits of big business over food safety for all Americans.

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