10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

Due to mass wolf poisonings in the 1960s and the 1970s, Griffon Vultures in Serbia suffered a dramatic population crash. There are very few sheep in the meadows and too few animals end up dead in the open, where scavengers can get them. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.).

Serbia 117

Serbia Herzegovina Bosnia Sheep 117

Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. Yes, I do think it's better to have lived a comfortable life and then be slaughtered than to have been tortured the entire time and then be slaughtered. I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig. It's cruel.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. Wolves eat sheep. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna?

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40