10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

Mice/rats in your house or business? When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. ” Most people don’t understand what they’re doing when they use rat poison. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. What to do?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. The testimonials all credit Birdsbesafe with reducing the number of birds killed by pet cats. Will the people who determinedly allow their cats to slaughter wild birds use it? Three of my eight are prolific bird killers.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Before you answer, here are some details to inform your decision: The first "knockout animals" were laboratory rats, whose anterior cingulate cortex have been damaged/blocked so that though they might still feel pain, they do not find it unpleasant. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. It does not make them more or less a "tool."

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?

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