10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them. While I was getting him acclimated to go in the outdoor flight, he had free range of my studio.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 10, 2009

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about free-range pigs. He seems to think that the demand for free-range pork is a demand for wild pork, when in fact it's a demand for morally acceptable conditions for the pigs. In other words, people want to eat not wild pigs but domestic pigs raised in humane conditions.

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Morals Free Range Pigs New York Times 40

Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree. It’s how we treat humans, too. For him, the importance of humane slaughter manifests itself in the quality of the meat."

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. Animals raised for food suffer miserably. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Indeed, in Ms.

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New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. That was one of his cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man. There are any number of concerns one could raise. How ecologically similar are the two species?

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