Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. that butcher horses for human consumption now, but if one were to open, it would conduct inspections to make sure federal laws were being followed. Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower.

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Horse Slaughter Horses Slaughter Slaughtered 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2012

No wonder they’ve earned the moniker “butcher bird.” Who needs talons when you can skewer your prey to your heart’s content, leave it to sit for awhile so the skin loosens up in the heat, then eat your fill. ” This one was calling to its family group as they wandered through the thorns searching for tidbits.

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Tanzania Butcher Family Groups 171

Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

Dutch law requires animals to be stunned before slaughter, but has long allowed an exemption for Muslims and orthodox Jews, who can legally butcher animals according to their centuries-old dietary rules.

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Livestock Slaughter Slaughtered Netherlands 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Pat Fish was the creative force behind a band called Jazz Butcher – he died in October last year. There are also several songs on Spotify with “ Little Egret” in the title, but at first listening, they all seem to suck. So, I need to find something else to say about this species. Maybe link to another music recommendation?

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It is a common bird itself but I had never managed to see one so well even though I butchered the photographic opportunity. Soon this strategy paid off, as we came across a Gray Hawk right along the edge of the river. Gray Hawk nearly in full adult plumage.

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Belize Tigers Butcher Birds 113

Critter News

MARCH 30, 2009

Known for a distinctive hump at the base of the neck, Brahman cattle are rare here and would be easily spotted at a local auction, leading investigators to think the rustlers already had a buyer — or a butcher — lined up.

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Cattle Butcher Cows Investigation 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2013

This bird had just landed after doing its flight display in perfect light for me to get photographs but, of course, I butchered the opportunity. Yellow-breasted Chats are actually pretty easy to see in Carbon Canyon Regional Park. Western Gulls like their seafood the same way I do – very fresh and in large quantities.

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California 2006 Butcher Breeding 141

Critter News

MARCH 30, 2009

But the thousands of daily deaths of animals are hidden away and on the butcher's shelf meat looks innocuous, nothing like the living thing it was. How many meat-eaters would cut the throat of a cow themselves, and hack open its belly with a knife to empty its intestines?

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Butcher Cows Meat Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Fast-forward to the present murky sky and the 1,215 rhino butchered last year.

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Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

I say they were butchered, face-off. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. One may say so.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 183

Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. Butcher plainly speaks of the use of horses and that those not usable perhaps should be killed. And no matter how special we claim horses are, they're only special if they're still worth something (to us. Financially).

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Horses Horse Slaughter Unwanted Horses Slaughter 100

Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2009

Also referred to as “The Butcher of Matabeleland”, he is the architect of Zimbabwe’s terrifying state security apparatus, creator of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Office (CIO) - and rumored to be next in line for president after Mugabe.

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Rhinos Elephants Butcher Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

I don’t know how I managed to completely butcher all of my shots of what was essentially a stationary subject. As cool as the snakes were we wanted to see a wild one and we quickly did, just a short walk from the boat. This is a horrible picture of a cool snake. Lunch time!

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Honduras Butcher Birds Fish 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Butcher, A. In a world where environmental conservation is increasingly under threat, it is becoming clear that we need to share the importance of the existence of species and their habitats. References. Berlanga, H., Kennedy, T. Arizmendi, C. Beardmore, P. Blancher, G. Couturier, A. Demarest, W. Gustafson, E. Iñigo-Elias, E. Panjabi, V.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 140

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However the designers also use discarded parts of animals killed by butchers, to "give new life to something that would normally be thrown away." A significant amount of mental acrobatics is involved in convincing yourself that you are not in some way an accomplice to the killing of sentient beings and then profiting from them.

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Butcher Ethics Killing Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2012

At Point Lookout we enjoyed Horned Grebes in close (though I butchered my attempts to get good digiscoped shots) and more American Oystercatchers on a jetty. After a brief discussion we decided to take the short drive over to Point Lookout to look for the Harlequin Ducks that have been delighting birders of late.

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New York Butcher Geese 2009 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Since the order went into effect, Claire Butcher continued to feed the ducks in the park and was allegedly observed bringing entire shopping carts filled with food. The media seemed to be focusing on the idea that you would actually arrest a little old lady who just wants to feed the birds.

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Bald Eagle Deer Minnesota 2000 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

They could also give bones to a lion (lions are easy to come by), and they could simulate an early human ancestor butchering an animal with stone tools (we Africanists normally do this at parties). This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Butcher 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2011

I’ll copy the whole thing here in case I butcher it: What we need do is study the wing formulae of the two birds. It requires a good look at the bird’s wings, which isn’t too much to ask considering the lazy slow flaps both crows employ to get from one place to another.

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Fish Butcher Texas Experience 128

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

It even made one very close pass by the boat, within twenty yards, but I managed to butcher the photographic opportunity so you will have to make do with these two shots, the best I got of any of the six Tufted Puffins we totalled.

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Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 169

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Well, so be it! We know that the struggle will be a long one; and if Vegetarianism has got to run the blockade of Noodledom, and a huge amount of foolish talk must perforce be fired off, the sooner the battle commences, and the sooner it is concluded, the better for all concerned.

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Vegetarian Butcher Non Human Meat 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2007

Look at all the animals you can kill, butcher, cook, and eat in one city. It makes me want to go out and slaughter a gopher.

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Gophers Butcher Slaughter Cooking 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2010

Few of us, comparatively, care to murder birds in "sport," and still fewer to cut up living animals in the supposed interests of "science," but we have all been taught to regard flesh-food as a necessity, and it is a matter, at first, of some effort and self-denial to rid ourselves of complicity in butchering. Henry S.

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Vegetarian Butcher Cruelty Science 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

People are irrational and conflicted and make a show of taking a stand but manage to still do whatever they want in the end.

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Vegan Morals Pit Bulls Advocacy 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across" (50). This is very silly.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

While this tragedy will increase calls for sorely needed government regulation, the real answer lies in the hands of each one of us: buy your burger from a local butcher who processes his ground beef daily on the premises.

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New York Times New York Hamburgers Meat Industry 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

Notice how they never sit together on buses?

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Mongolia Hedgehogs Russia Morals 186