10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. Why do they do this?
Animal Ethics
MAY 11, 2008
You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter. People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way.
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
How far do we go in protecting them? Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. David Peters New York, Nov. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 2, 2007
In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., That is never humane.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. This is good stuff.
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?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. Or the absence of legal protection. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe.
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