Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope. The fatality is one in a string of animal deaths in recent years.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

It’s no looker, it may not nest on our roofs or transport our progeny, but its story is far more fascinating than any old wives’ tale. They’re beautiful birds, and an example of the way birds and humans can coexist more or less prosperously for centuries. Here’s to the Wood Stork, then!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

The eagle was so hypothermic I was reluctant to put her in a transport box. We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. I put a blanket over her shoulders, as if she were an injured, elderly person, and carried her back to the truck.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

Following is a telepathic conversation I experienced while transporting dogs to a rescue. One day about 10 years ago, I was in the process of transporting quite a few dogs to a rescue from a high kill shelter. Cherie can be reached through her website [link]. You may also contact her directly at cherie@cheriev.com or 818.577.5247.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

hours on I-95 (we here in South Florida are known for our very limited public transportation options--boy do I miss NYC). Imagine if kids in 4-H were taught how to raise dogs for dogfighting (not a perfect analogy, I know). It has been a humbling 17 days as I walk the dogs early, shower, and get gussied up to sit in traffic for 1.5

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

During the last two years alone, Nadeem and Mohammed – and one volunteer, who retrieves birds from all over Delhi and its satellite cities by using public transportation – have taken in about 2600 cases, almost all paid for out of the brothers’ own pockets. We will not give up,” says Nadeem. “It It is our duty to save them.”.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. For more detailed descriptions of the conditions in which farm animals are raised, see here , here , and here. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged. Running time: 12 Minutes. Trivial or insignificant reasons won’t do.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Thanks to industrialization and modern transportation, the various labors required to make beer are often separated by great distances and divided by vocation. While one farmer grows hops, another raises grain destined for the malthouse.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

TRANSPORTATION. Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. The view from our window at Radisson Summit. Yes, that’s Panama City to the right. Let’s be honest: driving around Panama sucks.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Below are a few suggestions of sites within the city that can easily be reached using public transport. There is no transport inside the park and all travel must be on foot. At the furthest reach of the garden, a boardwalk has been built to raise visitors above the forest floor. The other attraction is Lago Das Carpas.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

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