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Proposed Changes to Migratory Bird Treaty Act – Part III

10,000 Birds

Canada, one of the parties to a treaty with the United States, also stated its concerns. It is also inconsistent with the majority of relevant court decisions addressing the issue, including the decision of the District Court for the Southern District of New York that expressly rejected the rationale offered in the rule.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An estimated one billion birds collide with glass each year in the United States* and most of them die; window collisions are considered the second highest cause of death of birds after cats (putting aside the big overall causes, like habitat loss and climate change).* ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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Little guy with big heart helping animals!

4 The Love Of Animals

Not only has he founded his own dog rescue in honor of his beloved poodle Buddy, but he contributed to and helped raise more than $1,000,000 for The Humane Society of the United States Animal Rescue Team on during The Humane Society’s To the Rescue! Gala, held at Cipriani in New York City.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He would have saved us the necessity of sending an undercover investigator to film the shocking mistreatment of animals. Wayne Pacelle President and Chief Executive The Humane Society of the United States Washington, March 8, 2008 He might have prevented the recall of 143 million pounds of beef.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. This is good stuff.

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