Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

In other words, the proverbial happy farm animal. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria. There are probably no happy animals in factory farming (ie.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2019

I had gone to investigate the area around Atécuaro, a tiny town to the south of the church my wife and I pastor on the edge of the city of Morelia, Mexico. I parked under some mature Michoacán Pines near a farmed field, typical habitat for Eastern Bluebirds. But it wasn’t until April of this year that it happened to me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Birders know that the pairing of farms and birds represents more than mere bucolic romance – it’s a match borne out of a real avian dependence on these man-made landscapes. Once brewed, saison would be laid down for use during the hot summer months, when a farming household would be much too occupied with fieldwork for making beer.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The use of wind turbines, often deployed on large scale in “wind farms,” has many benefits–wind power is a renewable resource with minimal impact on the environment. Justice Department is investigating seven of the deaths, since they violate federal law. Except for birds, that is. Apparently, the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2009

You can find out tonight by watching HBO's new documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm." Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. The documentary airs tonight (Monday, March 16) starting at 9:00 p.m.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S. July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. Check it out: Juvenile Tiny Hawk Show in Sarapiqui.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

He didn't know how his horses were being treated on his own farm? Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. Come on, that's a Michael Vick defense that didn't work with him either. Plus, this is the guy's BUSINESS.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Take, for example, this pair of birds I found investigating a cavity in northern Chatham County this weekend. A pair were busy investigating a broken stump, though the real object of their interest, what I assume was an old cavity, happened to just be on the opposite side. This is not a bird for cubicle farms! Appropriate!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 1, 2008

I especially appreciate the work they do on those horrific bear bile farms that are really just a form of torture for the animal. Tags: bears bile farming asia. I recently wrote my first check to Animals Asia. They are doing very important work on animal welfare in Asia. In a nutshell, here they are.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

The Justice Department has opened investigations. Tags: eggs factory farm agribusiness. It's in the Wall Street Journal. Fresh-egg farmers acted together through a series of export shipments, organized by United Egg Producers, an industry cartel whose 250-plus members include virtually all of the nation's big egg producers.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

For two years — years when I was learning to walk, talk, and name the animals that lived in the woods behind my parents farm, years when the roots of my own engagement with the environment were planted — the black-footed ferret was North America’s premier extinct mammal, gone forever with the Passenger Pigeon and the Great Auk.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Only the car-park down the hill has parking with flat access to the walking trails and the car-park on the other side of the village heading towards Whitton is much larger, but requires you to walk down a permissive path through the farm down some steps to join the trail.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

And because that's his premise, he proceeds to investigate both factory farming and smaller operations that include grazing and allowing the animals to live a relatively natural life (after their unnatural beginning and let's not forget about their unnatural end). Which begs the question: What about sea animals?

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

.: One message is that there's nothing wrong with eating animals, and in fact it's fantastic and thrilling and a win-win-win (people-planet-profits) when you eat animals that were "produced" by Polyface Farms. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing.

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Critter News

JUNE 10, 2011

In the decree the Spanish Government outlines a training and publicity initiatives to promote new methods of production to farmers and the public as well as a timeline to receive and investigate plans for conversion as well as committing €300m in loans for farmers to convert to enriched facilities.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

The horrors of fur farming in China will never end until we in America stop advertising and buying it. All the evidence you need is on [link] -- there is no investigation required. [link] If Markarian cares about the fur animals of China, he could easily demand that HP stop selling fur on his blog. They're not hiding anything.)

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 15, 2008

He would have saved us the necessity of sending an undercover investigator to film the shocking mistreatment of animals. Most Americans, by contrast, join with us in demanding better regulations to safeguard farm animals and more credible inspections of our food. He might have prevented the recall of 143 million pounds of beef.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

The second section of the book, The Present, describes the current state of research on the Kirtland’s Warbler in the form of you-are-there stories about projects investigating the bird’s nesting success requirements and diet, both in Michigan and the Bahamas.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

It is not unusual to drive by a farm building and see a bunch of Greater Rheas on the farm’s fenced-in pasture next to sheep or goats. Their ecology in Germany is being investigated, but the results have so far been inconclusive.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In the 1950s, Soviet scientists set up an experiment on a farm outside the city of Novosibirsk to understand how animals were domesticated. To investigate why the kids made this counter intuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Star Finch We heard some rustling near the boardwalk close to the hide in the middle of the day and closer investigation produced an active Buff-banded Rail. Pied Heron If like us you want to spend more than a few minutes in the area you can stay at the nearby Parry Creek Farm.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Have you taken the time to investigate this? Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? This sympathy can be a basis for revising one's moral principles so as to take animals into account. Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

My Dad is less of a biologist and more interested in history, but is also laid back and happy enough watching us have fun, but we even managed to find some historical sites to investigate. We went with a local company, Borneo Eco Tours.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

I’m not French, and I don’t follow football, but I generally don’t pass up an opportunity investigate holiday drinking traditions. This week’s bottle is a blended red wine from La Vieille Ferm (“the old farm”). I suspect I won’t be the only one drinking French wine this weekend.

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