10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2011

Already a $200 million a year industry largely concentrated in Malaysia and Thailand, the farming of swifts is now being ramped up in Vietnam. While eating the nests of swifts is nothing new, the large-scale production of these nests is.

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Vietnam Malaysia Thailand Vegan 183

Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. It's great that they were saved, but t hey arrived at the rescue center in wretched condition. Moon bears are rare, which makes this all the sadder. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue.

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Bears Rescue Farming Vietnam 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. Most of them were living on non-mechanized farming, which is limited to the few flat areas between the mountains. I asked myself while I was in the taxi on my way to the airport.

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Birds China Emotional Vietnam 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Sometimes you gain armchair big ticks, like the White-tailed Blue-flycatcher I saw in Uganda in 2005 which later turned out to be in the Stenostiridae, a recently erected family.

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Family Wombats Uganda Fiji 162

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Modern Korean society still has deep roots in its agricultural traditions, and Koreans can get very defensive about any issue that seems to threaten the livelihood of “grandpa and grandma” back on the farm, even if this causes them to pay twice as much for inefficiently produced Korean beef as they would for foreign imports.

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New York Times South Korea New York Iraq 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). If I pay my taxes during the Vietnam war, does this mean I am tacitly supporting the war?

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Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40