Critter News
FEBRUARY 8, 2009
Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service. Some suggestions are likely to be controversial with patients' groups, especially attempts to curb meat eating and car use. It's all part of a campaign to cut carbon emissions.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Still, I knew the winds of the hurricane could bring interesting bird species, so I ventured out Saturday morning, a day and a half before the meat of the storm made it up to northern Florida. Now, Sandwich Terns and Black Skimmers hunkered down in the sand with their Laughing Gull compatriots, content to wait it out for the next few days.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
They like to fly in pairs or groups and in the evening they come together in big groups to roost in a favorite ‘dormitory’ tree. Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. The Hyacinth Macaw is more than just another pretty face; these birds are social with strong family values.
Animal Person
JUNE 6, 2009
He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism. So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds. We have calculated that we need about 3.600 euros to finish the investigation and face its costs.
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that). But for the average discussion with the average, dog and cat person, I say stick with the language they use ("I love animals," "I only buy meat that was humanely raised"), and use those opportunities to educate them and point out the inconsistency in their claims.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 18, 2006
I buy pasture-raised meat, milk and eggs from local farmers who I know personally, because the animals are healthier than industrially raised animals, and I find that the quality is better. I hope everyone who prefers local and pasture-raised animals will speak up and protect the source of their food and health.
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