10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Not exactly a wetland, nor any other space where I would expect a Merlin, the mosaic of farm fields, urban areas, and coffee farms punctuated by a green thread of streamside forest apparently works. I was just minding my own business, not expecting a thing but the kill still happened.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2009

I' m concerned about Maple Farm Sanctuary , whose founders are two of the seven subjects in our new film , and I was wondering if you'd be willing to reach out through your blog to let people know that the sanctuary is in a financial tight spot right now. Late last night I received this message from Jenny Stein.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The mountain dynamic has killed people; quite a few in past times when folks who were dressed and adapted to warmer temperatures tried to hike over the tall mountains and became lost or were caught unawares and unprepared for a hypothermic night.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

An Indiana man, Wade Bennett, and a minor have pled guilty for their involvement in the shooting and killing of a critically endangered Whooping Crane way back in 2009, and been sentenced to probation and the paying of fines and fees. Thee is still no information on the more recent killings of the majestic birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. In fact, there are certainly a few cats killed by hawks every year. Raptors either.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. The cooperatives got together and instituted what we'll call a killing program; they retired cows," he said.

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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

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

During some seasons, millions of male pheasants are killed. While hunting plays some role, habitat loss as farms switch to monocultures is the greater culprit. Accidents on roads and with farm machinery also cause many pheasant deaths every year. These males are striking.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

Rather more are killed in collisions with cars. Here in the UK they were exterminated 400 years ago, but in recent years they have become re-established as a result of escapees from farms. Muntjac venison is very good to eat, but despite this, not many are shot.

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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. Except for birds, that is. A recent study has documented a rise in the number of turbine-related eagle deaths in the United States. .

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Yes, that's true.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it). it's "not eating animals.".

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing: "…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

From Biteback: On the night of 21 November more than 100,000 salmon were liberated from two fish farms in northen Sweden. These two fish farms are a part of the huge Swedish fish farming industry that kills over 5 billion fish every year. A boat motor was also destroyed and some tires slashed. Direct action saves lives!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 13, 2010

You say that "Family Farms do not exist and that they don't care about their animals." Are the humans providing Brian with something he is profiting from (maybe hard work, he'd say), and when they stop he will kill them? I love my cows and I don't anyone touch them in that manner. That is not true. What does that look like?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2009

From the Seattle PI: The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Suddenly I heard the farm hand’s voice shout, “It’s a twister, it’s a twister!” Solid food would have killed him, as he’d have used up the last of his fading energy trying to digest it. They saw movement on the grassy area to the side, slowed, and found a young hawk, soaking wet, unable to get off the ground. What should we do?”

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The discussion about the environment usually originates in the massive problems created by the factory farming of sentient nonhumans. Who needs to eat animals when you can have delicious, low fat, high fiber, nutritious meals that are light on carbon footprint and don't involve killing anybody?

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. If you kill animals or pay someone to do so for you, you support animal cruelty. They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. Once upon a time, the sky was blue and unpolluted, habitat plentiful, and natural food untainted.

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

In " Prominent Horseman Faces Questions About Neglect ," Joe Drape of the New York Times reports: Four undernourished and neglected former racehorses belonging to Ernie Paragallo, a prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner, were rescued from a New York kill pen last month, one step from being slaughtered. Or have to stop racing?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. It is not clear to me if the numerous cases of infection are all explained by wild to domestic bird transmission, or if some of the farms were cross-contaminated. Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds?

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

If there were ever a movement devoted to the principles set out in The Vegetarian Myth and if it proved successful, such a movement would easily result in a spectacular reduction in the suffering and torture of animals, compared to what they experience today in factory farms and due to ecosystem devastation.

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Animal Person

MAY 29, 2009

If it steers (sorry about the pun) people toward animals raised in places other than factory farms, where they will still be killed, I'm not thrilled. If more people eat actual food as a result (i.e., less processed food and more fresh, organic fruits, veggies, grains and legumes), than I'm thrilled. My guess is I'll get some of both.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

It could mean not only an end to killing animals for food, but also significantly aid the fight against climate change. So many people I know get really guilty when they hear about conditions at factory farms, but then just keep eating the same things. Nevertheless there's potential here for two giant breakthroughs. Da da da da!

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

They range from the legality of estate planning for companion animals, to changing liability standards and insurance coverage in dog bite cases, to compensation beyond fair market value when an animal is killed, to public and private conflicts about where an animal can be, and finally, to the competing interests of wild animals and urban, farming, (..)

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

There are groups dedicated to species like Eastern Bluebirds and Purple Martins and with extensive writings on how to keep starlings at bay and even recommendations on how to legally trap and kill them should they drive away North American birds. However, populations in Europe are floundering.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. And regardless of how you treat someone when they're live and regardless of how you kill them, if you don't need to kill them and you're doing so merely to please your palate, how do you justify what you're doing?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

When I think about the language that has been used by people who kill animals or have someone else do it for them, a couple of years ago the "compassionate" trend began. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron. That one left me speechless. "My

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