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Hope for Hen Welfare

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Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Slowing down Chimney Swifts

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Here in the southeast, we get to watch as the flocks of sickle-winged midge tyrants funnel back south again every fall, pausing to congregate most evenings in the old smokestacks that tower above the empty tobacco factories in downtown Durham, North Carolina. And the next day they’re gone, coursing over the skies of South America.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. The Pankhursts and their organization were not interested in saving birds; they saw the SPB mission as a distraction. Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade.

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Are We Really a Movement?

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Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. There is a group for every cause. It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. (I believe they can speak, but in their own language that we can understand if we only listen.)

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of (esp. as provided for and organized by legislation or social effort. c1380 WYCLIF Wks. 1880) 61 ei.han lordschipis, rentis, gaie houses & costy, & welfare of mete & drynk. a1395 HYLTON Scala Perf. 1494), He that.delytes in welfare of mete or drynke. 4.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. Various lobby groups, world food organizations, and consumer and environmentalist groups putting pressure on meat producers to utilize these waste products to feed animals might be a much more effective way of conserving grain than vegetarianism.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. there is actually a group dedicated to saving lobsters!),