10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2015
In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans. The delicate markings if two male Nyala. A female Nyala in Imfolozi. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.
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Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2017
For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Eastern Egg Rock is a tiny, rocky island well within site of the Maine-land.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. Hunters like him. I assume that the use of the flintlock is to enhance his self-image as a master of the woodland. Nothing noble there.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2011
Gray Jay : This drab but charismatic species demonstrates that the more a bird interacts with humans, the more colloquial names it will tend to pick up. Once known as the Canada Jay, but more interestingly by such tags as Camp Robber and Venison Hawk for its habit of hanging around humans and viewing them as a food source.
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Chefs place live lobsters in pots of boiling water.
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