Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said. The only real concern comes from the spread of illness to humans from eating diseased meat, but they only need to provide minimal care to avoid that.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope. The fatality is one in a string of animal deaths in recent years.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2011
European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have a long and pleasant history rooted deep in our western cultural heritage. In fact, there’s hardly a bird in the world that has such a venerated relationship with us.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 24, 2009
Following is a telepathic conversation I experienced while transporting dogs to a rescue. One day about 10 years ago, I was in the process of transporting quite a few dogs to a rescue from a high kill shelter. Cherie can be reached through her website [link]. You may also contact her directly at cherie@cheriev.com or 818.577.5247.
Animal Person
AUGUST 18, 2009
hours on I-95 (we here in South Florida are known for our very limited public transportation options--boy do I miss NYC). Imagine if kids in 4-H were taught how to raise dogs for dogfighting (not a perfect analogy, I know). I want humans to stop using sentient nonhumans for their own gain. It's comical. It's absurd.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.
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