Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Suddenly I heard the farm hand’s voice shout, “It’s a twister, it’s a twister!” He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh,

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Mice Squirrels Hunters New York 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Also, Ed Yong has written this up for Nature: Vultures blind to the dangers of wind farms: Collisions with turbines a result of visual adaptation for foraging.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. It’s a subject I’ve thought a lot about over the years, pretty much since I first started studying biology at undergraduate level. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.” White article on bird feeding stations.

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