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Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019)

10,000 Birds

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Given its veneration of Chianina beef, it’s hardly surprising that Tuscany has brought forth the world’s first celebrity butcher. An avian butcher at work: Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ) depicted by Dutch bird illustrator J.G.

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Butcher Birds, The Loggerhead Shrike

10,000 Birds

Childhood memories flooded back in, and I began my search for the poor victims of this bird, so lovingly nicknamed “The Butcher Bird” Nothing was found, not a grasshopper, lizard, nothing. There it sat, on the top of a Cordon Cactus, obviously looking for its next prey. Sometimes reality is so unfair!

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Chinese Dogs Rescued En Route to Butcher

Critter News

These dogs were rescued by Chinese activists before they could be slaughtered for meat. According to this article from the NPR site , such rescues are occuring more regularly as dogs are increasingly becoming pets. A good story from China for once.

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. Outdoor/feral cat people are bullies who prey on people unable to fight back, just as their cats do with birds. It’s time for this to end. How can we get this idea going? Suggestions are welcome. Sealed With A Trap.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Degradation of the Butcher

Animal Ethics

Of all recognised occupations by which, in civilised countries, a livelihood is sought and obtained, the work which is looked upon with the greatest loathing (next to the Hangman's) is that of the Butcher—as witness the opprobrious sense which the word "butcher" has acquired. Henry S.

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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?

Critter News

horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.” The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S.

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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

All these tender, tormented people, spending years crying crocodile tears about maimed and butchered birds, when all they had to do was close the door and keep their lethal property inside. “My . “… our cat … has been tormenting us daily with dead birds on the back porch. Sometimes two or three a day!”.

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