10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead focuses on those stories that both illustrate each chapter’s theme and clearly have meaning to him, and though the Birds and Us of the title primarily refers to how we, humans, observe and value birds, there are forays into birds and art, literature, medicine, food, religion, and biography.

Dissection 218

Dissection Birds Research Europe 218

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further.

Wildlife 238

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." 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). Overly generous inclusion?

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. Who would have thought that a post defending hunting game in general would have not been universally acclaimed? I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?”

Tigers 172

Tigers Hunting Game Protection 172

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." There's not enough evidence for an accusation of moral relativism, but for me the message is a mixed one. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. In all fairness, most people's only reference is PETA.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Why is this happening?

Hunting 110

Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 110