10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. What evolutionary forces have shaped their bodies for travel, what forces will be helping and hindering their journeys, and which scientists will be tagging, observing, and analyzing them as they make their way north?

Cyprus 257

Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 257

Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

"While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison.

Slaughter 100

Slaughter Slaughtered Cows Meat 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered?

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility. And once you are on the side of justice, it's impossible to present a rational alternative to animal farming. Tags: Books Ethics. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

We are overfishing, over-trawling, and mutilating and slaughtering bycatch by the millions of tons (17-39 million tons/year, not including marine mammals, sea bids and some invertebrates). To then present a widget that helps you eat seafood is strange. Oh, and this is a war we've declared and we're winning.

Vegan 100

Vegan Fish Industry Slaughter 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I'm sure that writers whose style I have a problem with will say, "I don't have the time or the inclination to write the sort of dispassionate, tepid prose you prefer while tens of billions of sentient nonhumans are being enslaved and slaughtered for no good reason." And I understand that point.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Ethics Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Whereas those arguments maintain that grain-eating animals should not be slaughtered, this argument is at least consistent with the position that they should be: grain-eating animals, it might be maintained by a new moral vegetarian, should be slaughtered to prevent them from eating more grain and producing new grain-eating offspring.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40