10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
They argue for the elimination of free-range cats entirely. million metric tons per year in the United States alone; and. (By There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression. Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Regardless of what we choose to eat, doing so will reduce our dietary carbon footprint by half because “about half of the food produced in the United States is thrown away.” A “free range” bird eats insects, as well as plants, so it gets more nutrition out of the same amount of land than do her cattle, which eat only the grass.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7
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