10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. But for all its historical importance, porter suffered a precipitous decline in popularity in the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic, and it vanished completely from its British Isles homeland when Guinness ceased porter production in 1974.

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Ducks San Francisco New York Legislation 117

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Do they suffer any more or less in death? There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." Are they any more or less sentient? Are they any more or less part of the mysterious unity of life? I think not.

Pigs 100

Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. All day long.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. One day about 10 years ago, I was in the process of transporting quite a few dogs to a rescue from a high kill shelter.

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Rescue Compassion Emotional Suffering 100

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

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. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong. I think it is an honor to be offered the opportunity to post on here with him and Mylan.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Factory 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. by Marc Bekoff.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. But, we’re facing a world of shrinking biodiversity and depressingly-high bird kill numbers that demand an accounting outside of our self interest. They simply helped me with my bird. Caring for our own is an element of survival.

Cats 205

Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

You are probably familiar with the famous experiments in which a baby seagull could easily be made to pay more attention to a fake parent seagull beak, ignoring the actual seagull beak, if the red spot normally found on the seagull beak was exaggerated in size and attached to, say, a pencil. That is an oversimplification of what happens.

Mammals 185

Mammals Turtles Eggs Fish 185

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Second, it might be argued that although it is wrong to kill microorganisms, it is not obvious that eating them kills them. Neither is it obvious, however, that eating microorganisms does not kill them. Let us suppose that some microorganisms that are eaten are killed, e.g., by the digestive workings of the body.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

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). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Pros – it’s big, doesn’t look too much like a chicken, tastes good, is found in most of Oz and has some experience of the job. Pros – it can kill you (like most proper Australian animals), is essentially a dinosaur. This awesome bird actually tried to kill me. Cons – is almost extinct.

Australia 175

Australia Chickens Birds Seals 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model. Yes, you do, trust me. That makes for an inner core of about 0.2% This is more serious than it sounds.

Birds 179

Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 179