10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. What a horror!

California Condor 256

California Condor Guam Whales Whaling 256

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. People like Adolf Hitler are pro-animal environmentalists!

Los Angeles 40

Los Angeles Whaling Whales Mammals 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2009

It is a merit of utilitarianism, with its stress on happiness and unhappiness, that lower animals must be considered along with human beings, so that they are not debarred from full or direct consideration because they are not "rational."

Morals 40

Morals Animal Liberation Animal Dolphins 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Instead of embracing these fantastic programs, a typical reaction from people within the animal rights movement is to condemn and protest the act, because animals were going to die. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. The logic of this is ridiculous.

Animal Rights Movement 263

Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

What better testament to Carl Akeley, the taxidermist who mounted that elephant and to whom the Hall of African Mammals is dedicated, than to say that he turned a vast, throbbing, stampeding, living animal into an edifice with a feeling so much like permanence that a pigeon could go to sleep there? Of course it’s not permanent.

Elephants 192

Elephants Gorillas Buffalo Mammals 192