10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2016

Addendum: The argument seems to be as follows: It is inconsistent both (a) to eat meat and (b) to condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; I condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; therefore, I may no longer eat meat. Good leftist that he is, Peter Singer doesn't let a crisis go to waste.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

She went back to red meat because she said the vegan diet almost killed her and was aging her hands. (I To go all the way back to red meat? This is an interesting article that reveals some stuff I didn't know about celebrities I like. Angelina Jolie used to be a vegan.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Solid food would have killed him, as he’d have used up the last of his fading energy trying to digest it. Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh, THEN we’ll kick him out. I forgot I had a squirrel in here!”

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Seriously, folks, if you are going to respect someone, you're not going to hold them captive and kill them. It involves not killing them. Potent if symbolic? Not eating them.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. If you kill animals or pay someone to do so for you, you support animal cruelty. Contestant: "And turkeys.". I think you actually support animal cruelty."

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The red-tail was really going to town on the carcass, which I am relatively certain wasn’t killed by the hawk but by one of the tractors that were used to mow the landfill. Always remember to pause during your meal to keep an eye out for potential meat-thieves. Other hawks are the worst! Finally, take small bites.

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here' s a review by vegetarian Mark Hand, who still eschewed "meat" even after reading the book. Some might argue that Keith has simply become an advocate of “happy meat”—local, grass-fed, sustainably produced, and humanely raised meat. Vegetarianism was the obvious path, with veganism the high road alongside it.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it).

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. However, Jewish and Islamic groups which can prove animals do not suffer more during ritual killing than in an ordinary slaughterhouse will be able to apply for permits.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? Finally, what of the audience? The hysteria of the crowd surely played a part in escalating an already frightening situation. This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. So why the hell do you continue to participate in the killing of chickens for food, yet cockfighting is no longer on your list?”

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up). Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?"

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). product that comes from an animal ). product that comes from an animal ).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? I certainly didn't.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.).

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! The interview is scheduled for 10-15 minutes of Monday's one-hour show.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. The illegal bird trade kills thousands of birds each year just in the manner they are smuggled. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

Second, if the people who believe this would eat all of their "meat" unseasoned and raw, after having killed the source animal with their bare hands and ripped open the carcass with nothing but said hands and some teeth, I'd feel like maybe their argument was at least sincere. We simply cannot survive without killing them!

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. Animals suffer when killed.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try Try not to think about the "meat" being "raised" and the "it."

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves. Hunting, the bush meat trade, habitat loss, population increases, they all have a part to play in this story. And sure enough, the natural reservoir of Marlburg, an unpleasant relative of Ebola, was finally identified in was indeed a bat cave I had taken my parents to in Uganda.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

But I have to think about which words I focus on, and whether they're going to help me in my quest to get more people to stop killing nonhuman animals/having them killed when they don't need to. I could debate about language all day, with vegans and non-vegans.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Hooked on Meat ,” by Mark Bittman (column, June 2): The other day, I asked the manager of our local chain grocery store why we were offered only Peruvian asparagus in the springtime. Why do we eat so much meat? Doesn’t it know that our American diet is killing us and our economy? We’re busy and misinformed.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Who Should Not Eat Meat, or What Does a Vegetarian Feed His Dog? Since animals cannot be judged morally praiseworthy or blameworthy, the question of whether it is morally wrong for them to eat meat cannot be raised. Does this mean that a vegetarian would have to feed his dog some meat substitute? Not necessarily.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience. Indeed, two well-known moral and social philosophers, Robert Nozick and Peter Singer, have recently advocated not eating meat on moral grounds. KBJ: There are different reasons to abstain from meat.

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2011

He visits Arizona's Road Kill Cafe, where the menu features not-so-exotic fare. And he meets people who consume things you would not find on the menu even at the Road Kill, like frog smoothies and tarantulas -- the former because it supposedly increases virility and the latter for medicinal purposes.

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