10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead. The NRA has tried to portray this movement as “taking away hunters’ rights,” which does nothing but insult the hunters already on board.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2011
Their slow wing beat keeps the breast meat from being as dark and strong flavored as many other migratory birds. Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” The big gray feather in Kentucky’s cap, to my thinking, is more like a big old hole, shot right through the crown.
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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. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,
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. You’d starve.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Each section, with one exception, offers images and text of ten birds; Vanishing Birds contains eleven.
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. Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick animal rights. Chefs place live lobsters in pots of boiling water.
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