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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started. wrote Maryjane Angelo. asked LouAnn Partington.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Unfortunately, this goal tends to run counter to humane goals.”

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E. The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products. No outside fat trimmings!

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Philip E. Devine on the Vegetarian's Dilemma

Animal Ethics

In the first case, there is no way around the suggestion, which many people appear to believe, that animal experience is so lacking in intensity that the pains of animals are overridden by the pleasures experienced by human beings. Devine seems to think that if humans cease eating meat, they will derive no pleasure from eating.

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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

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

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. A more accurate name for the end result would therefore be “clean meat.”