Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). Thanks a lot.

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Investigation Vegan Pigs Spain 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them. While I was getting him acclimated to go in the outdoor flight, he had free range of my studio.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Barn Owls Oklahoma 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. That was one of his cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 254

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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New York Times New York Debeaking Factory Farm 40