10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.
Critter News
AUGUST 29, 2008
The wolves suffer needlessly because hunters simply wound them more often then not firing from an airplane. Here is more video from Current on the subject (this one is a full 10 minutes), but explains how this is mainly for the benefit of trophy hunters, not subsistence hunters that Palin claims it is for.
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Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
Hunters kill members of endangered species. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Tags: Books Ethics Language.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. Overly generous inclusion?
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Another went out last Friday.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
As always, you are reminded that if you take the time to look at this post YOU MUST SHARE YOUR BEST GUESSES or you will suffer from broken optics, missed life birds, and the clap. … Tags: diabolical , ID Quiz , quiz • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Without further ado here are the three images.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Suppose some of them say yes (in American sign language). KBJ: Ditto.
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