Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

To the Editor: Re “Officials Point to Swine Flu in New York” (front page, April 26): Dare we ask why this happening [sic]? While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

I’m trying to decide where in Western New York to chase birds this weekend… got any ideas for me? If you see him next to you with bins raised, chances are you’re in the right place! If you hadn’t noticed, summer is coming to an end and birds are taking once more to their migratory routes. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

New York City makes it clear that this isn’t quite correct. A jay born and raised in New York State may winter in Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee, depending on its taste in barbecue. That last bit is my own interpretation of the data.) Some stop as short as Pennsylvania.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2009

To the Editor: Let’s tell people of the quantum jump in energy efficiency that could be accomplished by eating less meat and having what meat is eaten be grass fed and pasture raised by local farmers. Bonnie Lane Webber New York, Jan. It’s easy to cut meat consumption if you start with one day a week of no meat.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2018

You see Christo and Dora, the insurgent New York City Red-tail celebrities who bid fair to replace Pale Male (or whoever he is ) like yesterday’s meme, got themselves in a bit of a tangle. And to ‘raise awareness’ is such a nebulous thing. And now is the best of times.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. She lives with her handler, wildlife rehabilitator Lisa Acton, in upstate New York. But raising an ed bird means you can coochy-coochy them to your heart’s content. Xena is a Eurasian Eagle Owl.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The crow in the photograph above is unreleasable and lives at Teatown Lake Reservation in New York. Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. High Technology.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ From Hoof to Dinner Table, a New Bid to Cut Emissions ” (front page, Dec. 4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. Note from KBJ: The author of the New York Times story describes human beings as "carnivores."

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

Anthony Collerton is also racking up the species, with 322 species checked off his New York State checklist so far, only 30 species off the state record of 352 set just last year by Richard Fried. Anthony also has a brand new blog !

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

Health care skyrockets out of control mainly because we have no convenient access to fresh produce and tasty, humanely raised meat products. Doesn’t it know that our American diet is killing us and our economy? Americans want to eat the good stuff, but it must be readily available. We’re busy and misinformed.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

July 13, 2010 To the Editor: Today tens of thousands of American farmers don’t even own the livestock they raise, and the conditions they raise animals in are dictated to them by a handful of extremely powerful companies that are concerned only with the bottom line. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. April 23, 2008 To the Editor: You suggest that the raising of animals for food should be done “in ways that are both ethical and environmentally sound.” Vadim Liberman New York, April 23, 2008 More and more people do not. We call ourselves vegetarians.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2019

By now though, they’ve overspread nearly the entire North American continent, returning to long-established rookeries from coast to coast to raise broods of prehistoric-looking chicks. Now, they’re everywhere.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. Raising livestock is the best use of most pasture land, not growing crops. Buy locally raised pastured meats from farmers in your area. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. We reap what we sow.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Kristof wants animals to be raised for human consumption in the kind and generous manner of his boyhood farm, a way that certainly seems nicer to the animals than mean ol’ modern industrial-style farming.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I like IPAs year-round, but with the fall hawkwatching season upon us in New York and elsewhere, it’s a good time to be on the lookout for falcons, maltose and otherwise. __. Evil Twin Brewing Falco India Pale Ale. . Four out of five feathers (excellent). __.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Yesterday morning Dick Veit reported a Bell’s Vireo , what would be the third in history of New York State, at Mount Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island, the forgotten borough of New York City. ” It was only when Anthony posted a link to his photos of the bird that questions started being raised.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Unlike other grouse species, the male Willow Ptarmigan remains with the female throughout the breeding season to help raise the chicks. They are also rarely spotted farther south: in April of 2014, Corey saw one in New York (he also took the photo above)! Willow Ptarmigan calls are apparently favorites with Steven Spielberg.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Not only has he founded his own dog rescue in honor of his beloved poodle Buddy, but he contributed to and helped raise more than $1,000,000 for The Humane Society of the United States Animal Rescue Team on during The Humane Society’s To the Rescue! Gala, held at Cipriani in New York City.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. .

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

But the people who raise and package beef share a commitment to aggressively finding and applying safety solutions that keep them out of our food. coli O157:H7 and other food-borne threats are tough, adaptable foes.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

Chimney Swifts are remarkable birds who are having a harder and harder time finding brick chimneys in which to nest and raise their families. They are among the most difficult birds for wildlife rehabilitators to raise, so if any fall down your chimney their best chance of survival is to put them back up there again. said Jayne.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Animal Care and Animal Planet Co-Host the Annual ANIMAL CARE Gala Fundraiser on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at PACHA New York. Animal Care & Control of New York City is pleased to announce their second annual fundraising gala, which will be co-hosted by the popular cable network Animal Planet.

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Critter News

JUNE 3, 2010

That is the issue raised by this blog post. A CBS News crew was threatened with arrest when it tried to photograph the spill, and a BP representative in Louisiana told a Mother Jones reporter that she couldn’t visit the Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge without a BP escort. TP has the story in this repost.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy. I’ve raised a vegan child since conception. Children need protein.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. for migratory birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

This summer Lisa raised three orphaned Common Ravens. They were not aware of wildlife laws, and thought they could raise and release them. We decided to raise them, and hoped they would wild up quickly if we followed the protocol for avoiding imprinting. We live in upstate New York and have few neighbors.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 21, 2007

To the Editor: I appreciate Nicolette Hahn Niman’s efforts in raising awareness about the conditions in which pigs are raised (“ Pig Out ,” Op-Ed, March 14), but I was struck by her comment that it is incumbent on us to ensure that animals have decent lives because we ask them to make the ultimate sacrifice for us.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

In this country, this lesson is usually less direct: that it is somehow logical to teach kids to love and respect animals while feeding them animals that have been raised and slaughtered in genuinely terrible conditions. Cruelty and disregard for them are taught. Machtinger San Francisco, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Just think of the savings in water use if we didn’t have the need to raise millions of animals for human consumption! Christy (Op-Ed, Sept. 22): The solution to scarcity of water in the United States could be solved rather quickly if more people became vegetarians.

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