10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The hunters currently pushing copper bullets have seen the x-rays proving that lead bullets splinter when they enter an animal, and they know that the meat hunters feed their families is filled with lead fragments (x-ray, left, of white-tailed deer.) On November 13, “The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act” will come in front of the Senate.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb. 20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” People who study pigs say they are as intelligent as a 3-year-old child, smarter even than the dogs we share our homes with.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. This physical evidence of properly handled cattle would go a long way toward ensuring healthier meat while lifting the shared burden that comes with consigning millions of animals yearly to a terrifyingly cruel death. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., 21, 2008

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