10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Therefore, those very few northern winter guests that reach Germany are concentrated in our largest northern German cities, Berlin and Hamburg. However, even those northern birds are not too picky and will utilize human-made structures that mimic their natural habitats.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands.

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Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

And let me just say that on the occasions that I have bought bottled water, such as in airports because I couldn't bring my own, I felt nearly as bad as if I bought a hamburger. But it's time I feel as bad as if the water was a burger.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.) Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Many progressives care only about human beings. Many conservatives care about animals as well as human beings.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. But Stephanie Smith’s very tragic hamburger-induced affliction provides me with still another excuse (as if I needed one) to shun the carnivorous ways of so many of my fellow beings. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E.

New York Times 40

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Think of the difference between eating a hamburger and eating a veggie burger, for example. Devine seems to think that if humans cease eating meat, they will derive no pleasure from eating. But not eating meat doesn't mean you get no pleasure from eating; it means, at most, that you get less pleasure from eating.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

It doesn’t take much for them to learn that we need them to find human scent –and not other animals, dropped hamburgers, or unspecified gook. Trainers say that the dogs catch on to the whole process of finding people more quickly than we do.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Niman’s ranch and others using comparable methods? How many people would be able to afford the price?

New York Times 40

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Latin species name of the Slaty Bunting is siemsseni , after Georg Theodor Siemssen (1816-1886), a German merchant born in Hamburg, my favorite German city. He spent the years from 1836 to 1858 in Asia, first in Indonesia, then in China, partly as the consul of the city of Hamburg in China.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2011

Come on Americans, if you have it in you to invent great society-changing innovations such as Macdonalds Hamburgers, the Hummer and democratic capitalism, surely a small logical name change would not be that hard to do?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason. However, the above rationalization does not directly address the issue of contributing to the unnecessary killing of a conscious sentient being.

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