Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

"It's not as much about what the animal rights activists are saying about how we are raising pigs as opposed to us demonstrating that we do care and we are giving the best possible care" she said. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 28, 2013

And last, but not least, be sure to read about how this dog door helped a mini pig! That’s right friends, a MINI PIG DOOR ! Also, be sure to read Kimberly’s review at Keep the Tail Wagging , she had a very compelling reason to want this new dog door!

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

This is great news for animal rights because it's one more piece of evidence that humans aren't as exceptional as we like to think we are. The end of the article stumped me: "Highly sensitive pigs squeal a lot; highly sensitive people feel a lot. Highly sensitive pigs squeal, yet highly sensitive people feel a lot.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Right after getting the anchor set, what to my eyes should I see, but several P urple Martins flying above the boat! Right after a couple of quick photos, it was gone, off to more secluded locations. This is also the location of the great Pig War of 1872. Our next stop was at Stewart Island, in Reid Harbor.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

Pig in a poke. I sat alone in my canoe in the quiet little cove, laughing until I made the boat rock, laughing until the ripples spread out around me, and I felt my daddy right there, laughing with me. It’s a polite way to pronounce it, to make the i long, but it’s still feces. What IS a shitepoke? So “shitepoke” means “sh-tsack.”

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. They come from the same source right? From an opinion piece in the Times of India. They haven't been able to actually taste the pork they've grown because of lab rules.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 15, 2010

When their shelters are full, they depend on compassionate people who want to make a direct difference for a suffering cow, pig, chicken or other farm animal. Right now, due to an influx in cruelty cases, they desperately need to grow the FAAN program so they can continue to help farm animals in need.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2012

If he so much as sneezed, she was right over to his side to make sure he was OK. Oh, and if you want to watch something funny be sure to check out their video, Pet Interviews- Guinea Pig. And somehow Baby knew it too, she knew that her job was to look after him. A self proclaimed therapy dog, she would follow him everywhere.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. What do you think?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2015

Cesar Zeballos (far right) and friends. Llamas and wild guinea pigs are also found here. Being among the most difficult birds to see, expect a glimpse of the rail as it moves across a clear paths in the thick rushes. Photo: Cesar Zeballos. The best move would be to enlist the help of Cesar Zeballos Bashualdo.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A Probably because people see so many Red-tails taking down pigs.”. “At wrote Maryjane Angelo. asked LouAnn Partington.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

There is no difference between cruelty to a pig or a dog or a hen or a cat, and so the sooner we relegate these awful devices to the dustbin of history, the better. Mentally, they go insane from boredom and stress, just as our dogs or cats would if they were kept in tiny crates or carriers for their entire lives. FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

Choosing the right pet for your child is key. I got my first pets, mice and guinea pigs, when I was 8. For these folks, I recommend a nontraditional pet like a rat or a guinea pig. Guinea pigs also do not bite, unlike hamsters and gerbils which can tend to be nippy. By Dr. Tim Hunt, DVM.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 22, 2011

For cat lovers, too, the right retirement community matters. It would be far nicer if your friends and neighbors get to know and love your cat, which could become a familiar face for the community members in its own right. Of course, not all pets are cats and dogs. Perhaps you don’t own a pet, but always wanted to.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Yes, that's true. Besides, we have choices.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

And if Compassion in World Farming wanted to see if I knew of their campaigns and might want to support them, they could have easily Googled CIWF right at Animal Person, at which point they'd find: On Compassion in World Farming. On Egypt's Pig Cull. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

Thus far, the state ballot initiatives and agreements that will expand space for chickens (as well as for gestating pigs and veal calves) are really very minor. Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life. To the Editor: Re “ A Hen’s Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil.

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights Huffington Post language sentience spirituality veganism William Horden. This is indeed a matter of conscience.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

last year—28 million pounds—went to pigs, chickens, and cows, which in turn creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant super germs. In 2008, the FDA issued its second limit on the use of cephalosporins in cows, pigs, and chickens, citing the importance of cephalosporin drugs for treating disease in humans.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

One of the more distressing aspects of the animal liberation movement is the failure of almost all its exponents to draw a sharp distinction between the very different plights (and rights) of wild and domestic animals. But this is not true of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. Domestic animals are creations of man.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig. It's just not right. And now I regret that because I realize there is simply no way to raise an animal with the intent to kill that animal and call it anything but betrayal. Betrayal , according to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2010

Vetsulin was the perfect new product, except for the fact that it's animal (pig) based, unlike human insulins, and then there was the problem with quality control that was first reported last year. Furthermore, the insulin that was best for her back then, a long-acting one called Humulin U, for Ultralente, is no longer in production.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

There are duck stories and elephant stories and pig stories, but the reason we hear about them is because they are extraordinary. Tags: Books Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Language " Jeffrey Masson "The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving animal rights dogs service dogs. But he then addresses that.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. The conceptual foundation of such rights, however, is less conventional than natural, based upon, as one might say, evolutionary and ecological entitlement.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

We have become the pigs, and we are paying the price with our health. We are evolved to eat meat—it is right and natural. 27, 2008 The writer is a pig farmer. Whatever happened to the Sunday supper, while every other day is potato stew or corn chowder? Having a roast or baked chicken used to be for special occasions.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In 2004, Robert Stevens was convicted of violating this law and sentenced to 32 months in prison for selling videos featuring pit bulls chasing wild boars on organized hunts and depicting a pit bull attacking the lower jaw of a domestic farm pig, according to the Philadelphia-based appeals court. In July, a divided U.S. I don’t think so.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. Some will reduce their consumption of meat for the sake of the animals. Others will do so for the sake of the environment.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

That depends on whether there are morally relevant differences between chickens and fish on the one hand and cows, pigs, and sheep on the other. (I Salt seems to be saying that there are degrees of rightness. Let it be remembered that it is this latter consistency alone that has any interest for the Vegetarian. I believe there are.)

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof’s thoughtful exploration of animal rights, I was astonished to read that he continues to eat animals, like geese and pigs, for which he obviously has such affection and respect. Government animal rights regulations may help. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

“Indigenous pig sows?…Sure, …Sure, we got lots of ‘em javelina and wild hogs too” But I explained to him that I was a hunter of a different kind and that I was looking for tiny owls and not wild pigs. Right at the lodge. He was gesturing like a madman. “Schmoking Ponies!”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Drink coffee? Keep cats outdoors? What a horror! What a disaster!

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research. Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick animal rights.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

If you can parse the subtle differences in his photo below, you’ll see the bird on the left is a dark morph Oriental Honey Buzzard, but the bird on the right is a pale morph Changeable Hawk-Eagle. While observing the latter, Con maneuvered his cannon of a camera lens to snap a shot. Malaysian raptor clinic photo courtesy of Con Foley.

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