10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. Frantic search – Peter is even running by the canal, scanning the fields occasionally.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2013
Besides being food, ground squirrels can be friends to birds — most notably the Burrowing Owl , who relies on these and other digging mammals for nesting sites — or foes, when they perk up their diet with eggs and young from ground nests.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Unlike many other songbirds, these goldfinches subsist entirely on a vegetarian, seed-based diet. The cowbirds will try to lay their eggs in a goldfinch nest, but once hatched the young only survive a few days. Like the adults, the goldfinch chicks also eat only seeds, and the cowbird babies cannot survive long on that diet.
Animal Person
AUGUST 18, 2011
Hal Herzog writes about how many people who say they are vegetarians will also say they ate meat within the last 24 hours. And of course, many self-identified vegetarians eat fishes and/or chickens. During the show they give out Good Egg Awards to kids who've performed "acts of kindness." A good egg is one that is edible.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. A vegetarian of the first sort has no grounds for objecting to the eating of animals—molluscs for example—too rudimentary in their development to feel pain. Or he could object to the killing itself.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 8, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal? Would the blood be analogous to milk or eggs? KBJ: Agreed.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. The contrast would be, for example, “health vegetarianism.”
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