10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

We’ve been retreating into the world of wine of late here at Birds and Booze, but in case you were wondering, little has changed in the brewing industry during our brief digression this winter. But there is, I admit, something amiss to this New York birder about the sight of a raven eating a grapefruit.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Consumers can help the beef industry save itself by both buying less and choosing grass-fed. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. It is essential for the industry’s survival. The other problem with meat consumption is proportion.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

s rate of positives is well below industry averages (0.05 1 goal of industry, government and consumers. 11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. percent for 2009 versus 0.99 Food safety is the No. 11, 2010

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Drummer Denies He Intentionally Spooked Horse That Died ” (news article, Sept. The recent report by the New York City comptroller points out the absolute failure of city agencies to protect these indentured slaves. Zelda Penzel New York, Sept. Shame on Mayor Michael R. 16, 2007

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. McDonald’s, are you listening?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

Brewery Ommegang of Cooperstown, New York has long been one of my favorite breweries. Breweries are often unsightly, industrial places of corrugated aluminum and concrete floors, but Ommegang has taken great pains to unite form and function in its brewhouse architecture.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. This is good stuff.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

While some chicken producers and poultry purchasers have taken steps to reduce antibiotic use, the hog industry remains largely resistant to change. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept. To the Editor: Re “ Antibiotic Runoff ” (editorial, Sept.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

Yes this is a bird blog and this query is somewhat parochial but sometime this summer a bunch of big palm trees showed up at one of Long Island, New York’s premiere birding destinations, the west end of Jones Beach, and an explanation is seriously lacking.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

27): Mark Bittman answered my prayers by writing an article exposing how the meat industry contributes to global warming, world hunger and other issues plaguing our world. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. Brian O’Reilly Montclair, N.J.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long Island at the age of eight. I know that Ospreys nest in upstate central New York, but if I saw them there as a child, I don’t recall it (though my father will probably remind me that we did).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

It could determine the fate of the Canadian tar-sands industry and, with it, the future well-being of the planet.” If Keystone XL fails to win the president’s approval, the industry will certainly grow at a far slower pace than forecast and possibly witness the failure of costly ventures, resulting in an industry-wide contraction.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Kristof wants animals to be raised for human consumption in the kind and generous manner of his boyhood farm, a way that certainly seems nicer to the animals than mean ol’ modern industrial-style farming.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn., 1, 2009 To the Editor: As an ethics instructor who aims to inspire my students to think about the connections between their values and daily practices, I found Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article disappointing. Contrary to Ms.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 10, 2009

Given this potency, an 18 percent reduction in methane emissions from cattle isn’t going to be anywhere near enough to turn dairying or beef production into sustainable industries. (The difference is due to the fact that methane breaks down much more rapidly than carbon dioxide.)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Having grown up in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, I made the reasonable assumption that the Black Duck Porter made by Greenport Harbor Brewing Company was named for the American Black Duck , a locally common dabbler found throughout the East End’s many bays and saltmarshes.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2012

Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a leader in the pet care services industry. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. An earlier article recounted an E. coli outbreak traced to Cargill (“ The Burger That Shattered Her Life ,” front page, Oct. It’s like trying to grip mercury.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

While some have suggested the egg industry should police itself, history shows that industries based on the backs of the disenfranchised do not voluntarily soften the suffering of those they exploit—all the more so when the victims are millions of hens the public never sees.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 15, 2008

If Mr. Nocera actually had such clairvoyant powers over the meat-packing industry, why didn’t he put them to use last autumn and blow the whistle on the Westland/Hallmark slaughter plant? He has simply rehashed the party line from the slaughterhouse industry. Oh, really? He might have prevented the recall of 143 million pounds of beef.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. See here for one sufficient ground. Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Instead, it seeks to reform it. Animal rights is neither progressive nor conservative.

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Animal Person

APRIL 17, 2009

It's probably not a bad place to start, but when this industry behaves in a way that undermines personal responsibility, then we've got problems and that's usually a place where people feel government intervention is warranted. We pass clean air laws, we tax the heck out of cigarettes, we sue the tobacco industry.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 22, 2007

16): Given our exportation of large-scale intensive confinement facilities, it is tragic, though not surprising, that disease is devastating the Chinese industry. With this industrialization often comes overcrowding, inadequate ventilation and related physiological stress—factors implicated as heightening the risk of disease outbreaks.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still ‘The Jungle,’ ” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Jan. 2): Yes, 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the plight of the immigrant and focused in part on the meat industry.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

New York Times. New York City. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog).

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

18 editorial about the abuse of antibiotics in industrial hog farms. To the Editor: I applaud “ Antibiotic Runoff ,” your Sept. It not only brings light to a serious issue, but also begins to make the connection between factory farm practices and consumer choices.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Now that the carriage industry is being held under a microscope, it’s clear that it puts a black mark on the city. No amount of regulation, advisory panel oversight or coordination by city agencies will change the fact that those horses are tired and broken, and their needs are not being met.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

To the Editor: As sponsors of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , we take issue with Christa Weil’s views on the horsemeat industry ( Op-Ed , March 5). The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Stretching between Poughkeepsie on the east side of the river and Highland on the west side, the bridge is not only a great place to walk but it is also a historic site, which is why New York State officially manages the site as Walkway Over The Hudson State Historic Park. How historic is the bridge?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

I buy pasture-raised meat, milk and eggs from local farmers who I know personally, because the animals are healthier than industrially raised animals, and I find that the quality is better. This program will create havoc on America’s small farms.

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