10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

My friend Ingrid over at the Free Quark offers an interesting and valid argument in her post on the European Starling that “the biggest threat to any native species is our own voracious appetite for development, which reduces viable habitat for all species to a point where competition becomes exacerbated.”

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

The rising consumer preference for more “natural” and local products and concerns about pollution and antibiotic use in giant livestock operations are also driving change. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. Animals are raw materials to process for product. Livestock don’t contribute to campaigns, but agribusiness does. This is mass production. It’s the nature of the beast of mass production.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915. The other remarkable success story of Hart Mountain is the return of the Desert Bighorn Sheep.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are environmental reasons to go vegetarian: The production of animal-derived foods is implicated in every major environmental problem. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale." One cannot produce eggs or dairy products on a large scale without the wholesale exploitation of animals.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation. Michael Radkowsky Washington, Nov.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

Because the illness is mosquito-borne, the best way to avoid it is to kill the insects with something like a Mosquito Magnet or a product with DEET before the mosquitoes have an opportunity to pass on the virus. The disease can attack domestic pets, such as dogs and cats, as well as livestock, such as horses, chickens, and cattle.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Modern livestock farming on a grand scale also wastes a colossal amount of feed grains on animals which, in times past, would simply have fed off the land. More specifically, they eat far more meat than is necessary to maintain adequate nutrition. One can only agree. But even this fails to establish a case for vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, management and husbandry are more important than the type of production system for ensuring the health and well-being of pigs. That is never humane.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

One outspoken proponent of factory farming cited in the HPMAJ column is "Trent Loos, a rancher, journalist and vocal livestock supporter." According to the HPMAJ column, "Loos told cattle producers the livestock industry must show the public that there are moral and ethical justifications for taking the life of an animal to feed a person.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

McWilliams highlights the true environmental costs of eating meat: The livestock industry as a result of its reliance on corn and soy-based feed accounts for over half the synthetic fertilizer used in the United States, contributing more than any other sector to marine dead zones.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Once an obscure, rustic product hard to find outside of its Wallonian homeland, saisons are now familiar to drinkers around the world, who know them as refreshing, zesty ales loaded with spicy and fruity flavors produced by distinctive farmhouse yeast strains that saison brewers have cultivated for generations. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them. Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. But the end of the paragraph is where it gets interesting.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2017

This is a video explaining what tar sands production is doing to our environment. Please consider sending a public comment opposing the Keystone Pipeline to the Nebraska Public Service Commission, no later than 5pm Friday Central time via the Sierra Club. What other environmental catastrophes might we be looking at in the coming days?

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