10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This weekend was meant to draw kids into the Hamburg, PA Cabela’s to experience birds in a up-close and personal kind of way. James Currie from Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV was present filming all aspects of the weekend. Crowds in the hundreds (full of children) gathered as James Currie hosted his own quiz show of sorts.

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Hamburgers Tail Banding United States Philadelphia 178

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

The dogs operate on what’s real and present to them right now: scent/no scent, here/not here. 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. Search dogs don’t work with these kinds of preconceptions. They don’t assume anything is a given.

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Rescue Dogs Humane Dallas 100

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. It is highly unlikely, given the present policy of the United States government, that surplus grain, even if it were available, would be shipped to the most needy people.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

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? At the very most they have some gentle touches of pastel yellow (see image of a real Wood Warbler, above).

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Hamburgers ALA Fish Wildlife 227

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. To answer these questions, we need to reflect on what "necessary" means in the present context. Is it necessary for us to kill animals for food?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40