4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2012

For example, cocoa bean mulch contains theobromine, which is toxic for dogs. For example, if your dog has an appetite for odd objects (and many dogs do), keep items like garden hoses safely stored away when you aren’t monitoring your dog’s activity. Follow the application instructions for these products. Room to Move.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter."

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. Well, imagine raising the sea level 20 meters (and yes, that is more than a little bit possible).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills. The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience. The contrast would be, for example, “health vegetarianism.” First, I will raise some questions that usually are not asked, let alone answered, by moral vegetarians. Each argument has an audience.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. For example, on Tooley’s analysis, having a right to life is the same as being a person. Consequently, the killing of some animals for food, if done painlessly, is not morally objectionable.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. We’ve all seen guilty dogs slinking away with lowered tails, for example.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected. James Wakelin is prime example of modern ornithologist and conservator.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

The last example suggests the difficulty of making a clear distinction between an animal part and an animal product. For example, if one could pick up shed animal legs in a pasture in which animals roam freely among their own kind, there might be no moral objection to eating the legs. What Is an Animal Part?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Since animals cannot be judged morally praiseworthy or blameworthy, the question of whether it is morally wrong for them to eat meat cannot be raised. This becomes especially true when one realizes that vegetarians often argue that a reason that it is prima facie wrong to eat animals is that animals must be killed to provide the food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. It looked like a family of parrots were trying to kill each other” The Black-backed Puffback has what eBird describes as “a fiery red eye” eBird also explains the name: “When excited, males can raise fluffy white feathers on the rump to resemble a puffball.”

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). Owls are in danger from the usual threats–habitat destruction, climate change, human intrusion.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened. I.e., will a lack of, or reduced, winter kill-offs of parasites affect these birds?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The chapter on Martha, for example, just shows a close-up of her stuff body–not the whole body, the torso and tail–against an almost-black background. Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. The question that must be raised, however, is how the conclusion not to eat meat follows from this. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. One can do many things.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

Example: A reference to "still undemocratic Iraq" makes the assertion that eventually Iraq will be democratic. Keith: What I call "editorializing by adverb" is the practice of inserting an adverb into a statement to make an assertion without seeming to make an assertion. Did you notice that "who" the writer slipped in there?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Even less relevant side note: To my delight, the author has a firmly anti-Trump tone, remarking for example that “A president claims he was being ‘sarcastic’ after, in all seriousness, he raises the possibility of injecting Americans with bleach in order to control a pandemic.”).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This extraordinary and massive bird was once thought to represent two species, but is now know to instead represent a great example of sexual dimorphism, with males weighing half as much as the females. There are few sights on Earth more astonishing than the largest flying predator making its kill.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Yes, you do, trust me.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). As it is critically endangered (there are only about 100 left), I think it can be forgiven for killing the occasional Pale Thrush (which is listed as Least Concern).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2021

The changes revolved around something called “incidental take,” which is an activity that harm or kills birds incidental to its purpose. For example, wind turbines are designed to generate electricity, but they incidentally strike eagles and other birds. Accordingly, we are proposing to revoke the January 7 rule.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Once I am moderately successful, I often find such photos quite pleasing.

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