10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows.

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Slaughter Slaughtered Humane Germany 100

Critter News

APRIL 4, 2010

It's just easier to kill sea lions that to break down dams. Tags: salmon marine animals hydropower dams endangered species. She highlights dams, but that is only one of the four H's (hydro, harvest, habitat and hatcheries) that are obliterating this beautiful creature. I think this opinion is pretty wide-spread.

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Sea Lions Lions Endangered Species Humane 100

Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

Trying to put a humane face on a barbaric practice. Tags: canada seal hunters seals. Here they go again. We're proceeding as usual." "No The sealers must now feel the seal's cranium to make sure it is broken.

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Seals Canada Killing Hunters 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s not always an easy book, at times dense and challenging, it is also fascinating and stimulating, motivating us to look at the totality of a bird’s life and the interconnectedness amongst bird movements, shorelines, landscapes, weather, and us–humans. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 243

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. To old-speciesists, nonhumans must justify their existence by proving useful to humans; in contrast, some or all humans have inherent value.

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Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

Or to get struck by an automobile, die slowly, of failing internal organs, and be unfit for human consumption." Let's deconstruct: What we have here is the myth that killing animals in the wild and then eating them is somehow a compassionate act. thinking about the ways in which the deers have a "BIG" human problem.

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Deer Euthanasia Killing Ethics 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2014

While humans are uttering “oohs” and “ahhs,” enjoying the 4th of July fireworks, many terrified dogs are digging under or jumping over fences, breaking tethers or even shattering windows in an attempt to escape from the frightening noises. If your pet does go missing over the holiday, check immediately and often with local animal shelters.

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Sea lions are killed here for eating salmon. It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat. It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat.

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Sea Lions Lions Endangered Species Washington 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. Tags: UK animal research military pigs. From the BBC News. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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Pigs Afghanistan Iraq 2006 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." Tags: quotes.

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Critter News

MAY 20, 2009

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans." -- Leo Tolstoy. Tags: quotes.

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Killing Humane Tagged Animal 100

Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Zimbabwe Wildlife Non Human Elephants 100

Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. It’s how we treat humans, too. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Slaughter Slaughtered Cows Meat 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". Nonhuman animals are not here to be purposeful to humans. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language.

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Butcher Ethics Killing Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a result of the funding mechanisms whereby state agencies rely on hunter purchase of hunting tags to maintain operations, these bureaucracies are not going to promote predators in the face of opposition from hunters.”.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Tags: austria animal research pigs. Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover. From USA Today.

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Pigs Austria Animal Research Research 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption. The next argument is usually something along the lines of: But animals in the wild might starve to death, and get injured, maimed or killed by predators! We can choose not to kill and eat someone we do not need to eat in order to survive.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

Because he killed humans and only humans matter in this world remember? Tags: pit bull Michael Vick sick. Wouldn't it have been Christian to just release him and hope he could redeem himself through a high-profile, lucrative contract? Perhaps he just needed a mentor or, even better, a hug! Of course not.

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Michael Vick Pit Bulls Killing Humane 100

Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, this goal tends to run counter to humane goals.”

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Animal Welfare Act Animal Welfare Farm Animal Farmed Animals 100

Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. Tags: australia animal experimentation animal research medical research.

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Medical Research Animal Research Medical Animal 100

Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

Felony animal cruelty is the cruel killing of an animal, and he is also being charges with 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body.) The four counts of burglary he is being charged with carry a heftier sentence than the animal killing. And people who want to kill those they cannot control scare me.

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Cats Dissection Cougars Pigs 100

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person. How contradictory is that? But who cares about me?

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

Critter News

AUGUST 21, 2008

The delisting would not open the door for hunters to kill wolves, the state's DNR notes. Killing would be permitted only if a wolf posed a direct threat to humans. Tags: bald eagle Gray Wolf us endangered species. State environmental groups are showing "cautious optimism.".

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Michigan Wolves Eagles Bald Eagle 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. It's a bit difficult to take on the soul question for human or nonhuman animals, particularly for an atheist. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. I'll set it aside here.

Pigs 100

Pigs Ethics Suffering Meat 100

Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future." Here's my question: What is "a humane future?" What does that look like for pigs who have been brought into this world for the sole purpose of being products to be traded and eventually killed?

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Egypt Culling Pigs Compassion In World Farming 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75).

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

HSUS’ latest public relations gimmick is part of a larger attempt by the very animal control officers responsible for this neglect and abuse to reform their image from one of “dog catcher” to “humane law enforcement.” Nathan Winograd is an advocate for no-kill shelters (and is the author of several books on the subject).

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Shelters HSUS No Kill Shelter Neglecting 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 13, 2010

Does he own the human members of his "family?" Does he really equate the cows with the human sentients in his family? Can the humans come and go as they please? Are the humans providing Brian with something he is profiting from (maybe hard work, he'd say), and when they stop he will kill them?

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Family Animal Sanctuary Sanctuary Cows 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Our clients are legally impacted by a vast array of human/animal interactions. Tags: animal law. The status of animals in our legal system is in flux and attorneys are discovering creative and interesting ways to use legal arguments in the face of increasingly complex scenarios.

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Laws Animal Companion Animal Human Animals 100

Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”. Butcher plainly speaks of the use of horses and that those not usable perhaps should be killed.

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Horse Slaughter Horses Unwanted Horses Slaughter 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. Nonviolence" is much more difficult to finesse if you're killing animals for a living. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Or vegan pumpkin pie.

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Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show, Unlikely Animal Friends, will bring you stories about Christian the Lion and his humans, a baby hippo and a giant tortoise, a lioness and a baby oryx, an orangutan and a hound dog and more! And a lioness turns down an easy kill when she comes across a baby oryx. Tags: tv.

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Tortoises Lions Elephants Animal Friendly 100

Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here are some tidbits: Keith believes humans need to embrace the consumption of animal products, including beef, or else face severe and chronic health problems. Some might argue that Keith has simply become an advocate of “happy meat”—local, grass-fed, sustainably produced, and humanely raised meat. But that would be unfair.

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Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I can’t even imagine being in a position where my government was telling me to kill my dog, or have it beaten to death. Dog owners in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, are even being told to kill their own dogs, or else their dogs will be beaten to death by the police and the owners will be charged a fine. Thank you, Fred.

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China IFAW Culling Dogs 100