Critter News

MAY 4, 2009

Tutti-fruity-flavored cows? South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases. Tags: Stupid cloning. And I'm certainly no fan of making a living thing "glow-in-dark." From Huffington Post.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. It's a bit difficult to take on the soul question for human or nonhuman animals, particularly for an atheist. His aside demonstrates how self-conscious he is about attributes shared by pigs and dogs, which he knows is also shared by humans.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". Nonhuman animals are not here to be purposeful to humans. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. Yes, it is hypocritical (speciesism), but who said that we either protect humans or animals? All they do thereafter is replace cows with chickens and pigs and fish. Where do people get that idea? What do you think?

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

We humans have decided that, for a combination of reasons that are important to us, cats are worthy of our respect. I can't think of another animal so hated by humans that they have actually created an industry to publicize their hatred and their wish to hurt and kill them. We don't say we hate cows. In fact we say we love them.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. It's great that someone realizes that there is no real difference between dogs and cows. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters.

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption. It's not pretty.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Juluri's focus on animals used to entertain humans is intentional and speaks to the legal battle he refers to. And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? When is violence toward an animal in a video gratuitous? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive?

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here are some tidbits: Keith believes humans need to embrace the consumption of animal products, including beef, or else face severe and chronic health problems. Some might argue that Keith has simply become an advocate of “happy meat”—local, grass-fed, sustainably produced, and humanely raised meat. But that would be unfair.

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Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I blame Charlie Sheen. What is even more terrifying is that the link takes you to Cracked. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Thanks for visiting!

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. No one needs to eat sentient beings, so it's not as if these "farmers" are providing a valuable service to humanity. I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

Here's today's question: When a group of omnivores begins the inevitable round of jokes about veganism and even about slaughter ("I love turkeys--with sweet potatoes," or my cousin this week on Facebook, "I love the cow, therefore I eat her cheese," or something equally insensitive and ignorant), what do you do? Not humans, not animals."

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Vegan Turkey Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. You may know that dog/human coevolution has been a popular topic in the past decade, and if so, this might help: Masson "takes E. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

If you're going to call something an anthropological adventure, it would make sense to teach the kids about the other animals humans eat and give the kids the opportunity to prepare and eat dog, cat and monkey, no? Perhaps they are taught that other cultures eat animals other than cows, chickens, fish and pigs, I don't know.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# Tags: diving ducks , ducks , leucism , leucistic • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? … If you liked this series of images you’ll love 10,000 Clicks , our photo-galleries page here at 10,000 Birds. Get yours today!

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Animal Person

JULY 9, 2009

Just that we humans can know one thing to our core, we can believe it entirely, and yet, we can do what basically is the opposite. Someone who goes from vegan to vegetarian to eating cows isn't really in a position to judge anyone. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. What does this mean? And I don't judge him.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 15, 2009

Let ‘Em Out : Puppies and dogs are made to run and play, sniff the ground, dig in the dirt, and roll in the grass (and the cow plop). A rub down or massage is good for the puppy and the human massager as well, and you can stimulate many health-providing acupuncture points with a simple head to tail, whole-body massage.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. The Bay of Islands is a very popular area for tourists, both those looking for natural history and for human history. Thanks for visiting!

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Namibia 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. … Tags: brazil • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? See who won the contest here! Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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Brazil 2011 Birds Penguins 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea California 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. Thanks for visiting!

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Peru Parrots 2011 Deer 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

.’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

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2011 Fowl Deer Cats 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Happy birding, Dale Forbes Tags: accentors , Alpine Accentor , Birds , features , polygynandry • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. All of them had successfully learned the skills we taught them to forage in “safe&# areas and avoid humans. It has not.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 230

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." I thought: What if those were women, ears tagged, imprisoned in some metal contraption that made it easier for the man behind them to inseminate them. what if those were human babies?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. Human slavery, of course. The irony of the inclusion of the cow in The Girl Effect is that it swaps one form of slavery for another. Sex slavery.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." The cows' tails swing in the breeze.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

There are also a number of Takahe , one of which, named Greg, has learnt that humans equal food, and will hang around the day visitors in the hope of a snack. Greg the Naughty Takahe ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) Tags: Destinations , new zealand • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Cats 147

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

Animal Person

JULY 6, 2010

As long as the animals aren't on a farm or otherwise being used by humans, I love the idea of animals in the lives of babies. I chose a cow for Sky's first stuffed animal, and I hope that she will grow up to honor and respect the lives of cows the same way she will honor and respect the lives of greyhounds. Only time will tell.

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Humane Animal Cows Greyhounds 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. Humans can probably just find their own little place to thrive. Tags: blue tit , chickadees and tits , research • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? What do you think? Get yours today! Makes sense really.

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Cats Costa Rica 2011 Deer 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

This is what wikipedia has to say about Stoke’s Sea Snake: “Although aggressive with a venomous bite, there are no reported human fatalities attributed to Stokes’ seasnake.&# Tags: australia , broome • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! However, I must critizise this post of yours.

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2011 Deer Australia New York 142