10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

Albatross 214

Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

Yesterday I received an e-mail alert from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) regarding " a coin operated game that uses live lobsters at the Royal Palm Ale House in Royal Palm Beach. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane." What do you think of this campaign?

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Game Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Tags: Books Ethics Language.

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought. And it limits you in that you can't just go anywhere to watch a football game if you plan to eat anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I recently watched Earthlings and cried the whole way through.

Vegan 100

Vegan Animal Suffering Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users. No one can “own” wildlife.

Wildlife 247

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 247

Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

You are preventing untold exploitation and suffering by tackling them. Publishing is a numbers game. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink. Of course, everyone takes it personally when their Yes turns into a No, and I can say that I have had clients who were so devastated by this that they stopped writing.

Vegan 100

Vegan Ethics Animal Game 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40