10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Black Francolin – one of several hundred birds with black in its name OK, nearly all of the people who had birds named after them were white, often rich and typically colonialists, army officers or explorers, but there’s hardly a dull person among them, and all were products of their time.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 221

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. Animals are raw materials to process for product.

Farm Animal 100

Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Despite being debased and reduced to a mere gastronomic buzzword by American chains of Italian-esque eateries, the offerings of dubious submarine sandwich shops, and bastardized and slapped onto corporate supermarket products labels, the word “Tuscan” can still denote genuine gastronomic excellence in a country of proud regional food traditions.

2019 218

2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 218

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. to eliminate the most toxic of their ingredients and to repackage their products more safely. EPA began cancellation proceedings, and at the eleventh hour Liphatech and Spectrum Group pulled the most dangerous of their products from the shelves.

Rats 241

Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 241

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

A silhouetted Golden Eagle in flight appears on all current bottlings by Ardmore, and over the years, the same species has occasionally appeared on various products by Scottish distilleries like Glenfarclas and Mortlach. Swans swim on a small pond on the distillery grounds and deer and otters can be found by a trail that runs beside the burn.

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Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 159

Critter News

MARCH 27, 2012

This despite a dry market for seal products and a warming climate that is hurting the species? The market for Canadian seal pelts has gone dry but the federal government will still allow sealers to kill 400,000 of the marine mammals when the annual hunt opens next Monday. Really, Canada?

Seals 100

Seals Canada Mammals Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

So when a local Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ) nest that had been occupied for at least the last eleven years was removed by the local park and recreation department, after the Osprey pair had already arrived to nest, people were upset.

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Transported Eggs Birds Killing 101

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 4, 2011

is a new business that offers consumers the best quality pet products that are built with an interior design eye and an eco-conscious heart. Better Buddies’ mission is to shift society’s focus to adoption as the means to find a pet and to make no-kill kennels the way to find pets. Better Buddies, Inc.,

Homelessness 100

Homelessness Kennels Adoptable Pets 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

These days, the trendy “farm-to-glass” label advertises the promise of locally cultivated grans and hops in your beer, but this is hardly a novel arrangement of brewing markets and production. Historically, saison was a beer tied to time as much as it was to place.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?

Collecting 240

Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

I’ve recently returned from a filming trip in Arizona where I have been working on a production for National Geographic on Harris’s (Harris) Hawks. During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose.

League Against Cruel Sports 270

League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. I don't see what they get out of it, unless they want to impress Europe, which has already banned seal products. Apparently, some claim about 90 percent of Canadian sales are to Russia. Excerpted from the Globe and Mail.

Russia 100

Russia Seals Belarus Fur Industry 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. I rushed down to aid with what I could give, taking several spare bird books, DVD’s, bird T-shirts and Birdman Productions hats along with 2 pairs of my “extra” binoculars. Chaos and insulation.

South Dakota 266

South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

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.

Laws 100

Laws California Downers Livestock 100

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.

Livestock 100

Livestock Slaughter Slaughtered Netherlands 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed. With demand for ivory products increasing back home, some Chinese workers on low salaries in Kenya are reported to have become middlemen in the ivory trade.

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illegal Kenya Laos Elephants 100

Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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Meat 52

Meat Killing Animal 52

Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing: "…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. We anticipate all BOCA products will be egg free in 2010." Totally missed this story from about a month ago.

2009 100

2009 Eggs Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

The Canadian government has authorized the killing of 280,000 harp seals. The only way it will end is if the market for this product in Europe dries up. I won't even bother asking the Canadians to stop this barbaric practice. The US already has such a ban in place.

Seals 100

Seals Hunting Canada Europe 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. We use toxins, pesticides, and herbicides in many ways, from dusting our pansies to increasing the yield of thousands of acres of crops.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 189

Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. Circling the lake anticlockwise, the northern shore was the least productive, but the western dyke (the northern half of the west shore) with 45 species was very good.

Greece 181

Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 181

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.

Vegan 100

Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future." What does that look like for pigs who have been brought into this world for the sole purpose of being products to be traded and eventually killed? Here's my question: What is "a humane future?"

Egypt 100

Egypt Culling Pigs Compassion In World Farming 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The main difference is that Foer doesn't eat meat (though he does, as it turns out, eat some animal products) and he challenges the cultural assumptions that tell us that some animals are for petting and some are for eating. It's okay to produce animals to use them and then kill them (or kill them to use their parts as food).

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Typically viewers see the end product of those dives, but this live broadcast allows them to share in the immediacy of the experience.”. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? In fact, on average four times more people are killed by cows in the U.S. Time of day. Panic and fear.

Sharks 100

Sharks Experience Experiments South Africa 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., product that comes from an animal ). The theory is sound.

Pigs 100

Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

Wildlife 238

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

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). Often it permanently disables or kills. Like any other unnecessary killing of innocent beings, it still wouldn't be humane" (137).

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

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.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here are some tidbits: Keith believes humans need to embrace the consumption of animal products, including beef, or else face severe and chronic health problems. And with regard to killing in order to survive, there's a difference between "killing" a carrot and killing a cow, whom you know is just as sentient as your dog or your child.

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. But for all its historical importance, porter suffered a precipitous decline in popularity in the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic, and it vanished completely from its British Isles homeland when Guinness ceased porter production in 1974.

Ducks 120

Ducks San Francisco New York Legislation 120

Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. welfare") is the best that any of us can ever hope for, and of course what is a change in the way I kill you other than a change in the method by which you die. Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate?

Foie Gras 100

Foie Gras Seals Protest Protesting 100

Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

A Dalmatian, stolen and sold for research, she was likely terrified and probably in enormous pain when she was killed, a couple of weeks after she was taken. Didn't she represent the dawn of a new age of profiting from the "production" and sale of animals? Pepper was a beloved family pet. The birth of a new business model?

Research 100

Research Biomedical Research Science Animal Protection 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. because the Holocene had little rapid climate change.

Penguins 198

Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Up the dirt track next to a hilltop church is not particularly productive at this time of year. There are 172 species of butterflies recorded within the national park, 24 species of bats, plus the Beech Marten (which I saw only as a road-kill), Otter , Wild Cat , Badger , Wild Boar , Grey Wolf and the European Brown Bear, among others.

Greece 252

Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252