10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

The following year several more urban falcons were discovered, ranging from a pair on a factory chimney on the Cheshire/Lancashire border to a warehouse above the Mersey in Liverpool. Swansea was one of the first British towns to claim a successful pair when, in 1990, a pair bred on the Post Office Tower.

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Critter News

MARCH 12, 2009

Called Death on a Factory Farm, the documentary shows animal cruelty on a hog farm in Ohio. You can read about it here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal. I visited the factory a few years ago, and the quality control there is now first class. (I With hindsight this wasn’t a great move. The Leica had good optics and was light and compact, but wasn’t robust, and bits fell off.

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Austria Factory Germany Portugal 196

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2023

I suspect that, in keeping with the ways of its classic, parking lot scavenging brethren, the bird spends a fair amount of time getting easy eats at inaccessible fish factories. We have had better looks at the Herring but somehow, the Ring-billed has evaded our optics.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Apart from a juvenile Southern Beardless Tyrannulet we were just seeing roads and factories. And our assumption was that the antwren isn’t a great songster and as such relatively safe from trappers. Of course, the trip was a disaster. Saint Gall , the patron of birds, then smiled upon us. We stopped for a hitchhiker and offered him a ride. “

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Animal Ethics

JULY 31, 2008

I agree with Nicholas Kristof that factory farms will eventually be banned by law. I also agree that it will be a good thing. Addendum: Here are comments on Kristof's column.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2020

Other areas in Lingang are starting to be covered with factories (Tesla) and residential buildings. While the threat of being captured in bird nets is getting lower thanks to the efforts of volunteers searching for and destroying nets, the amount of undisturbed coastline and reedbeds is shrinking dramatically.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2009

You can find out tonight by watching HBO's new documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm." Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. Ever wonder how the animals you eat are treated before they become your dinner?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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Animal Ethics

JULY 31, 2007

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about factory farming. I have added the Factory Farm Map to the blogroll.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This sounds wonderful. It will be in Arlington, VA at the end of October. Someday, if it becomes an annual event, I hope I can go.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2019

I though her to be a silent type, perhaps tired of flying and jet lag, but it never ever occurred to me that my female guest may be worried when passing closed and abandoned communist era factories. That would have been the last thing to come to my mind. But after 10 or 15 minutes, I was totally comfortable,” E.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

Despite the lingering snow and frigid cold, my neighborhood is abuzz with more clicks, whistles, and whirrs than a toy factory. The spring before you may not resemble the one you’ve been pining for these last several months, but don’t tell that to the birds. Grackles know what time of year this is.

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Critter News

JUNE 29, 2010

Not the solution or end to factory farming, but if big ag can't rely on antibiotics, then they may have to rethink the filthy conditions of factory farms. Tags: antibiotics farm animal welfare factory farm. Animals would get sick much easier, possibly affecting the bottom line of profit above all. From Opposing Views.com.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2015

The final site of the day was sewage ponds of the sugar factory by the town of Kovin. This sugar factory is closed for years already and there is no one to talk to, but building a nesting raft here would be of greatest importance. The Danube shallows are waterless.

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Stray Dog Factory Turtles Serbia 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

Whilst many use traditional gravel sites close to river beds, more and more are taking to man-made sites such as golf courses and even flat factory roofs. The latter offering superb protection from ground predators and providing many factory workers with a connection with nature all too rare for most.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two. But to us locals from the El Dub (Lake Worth, FL) it refers to anywhere east of the Everglades and west of Congress Avenue. And this is where magic happens from time to time.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.)

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

It's also a factory farm. The important word in the phrase "family farm" is the same word that is important in "factory farm." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights factory farms family farms. “I work with the hogs every day, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with gestation crates,” he said.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 27, 2009

And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals. The significant problem with this book is that the solution to the problems posed (which begin with "On factory farms. ") could easily be some Farm Forward-endorsed small operation where many of the horrors of factory farming don't exist.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Before the owls brought tourists, billboards along the main road proudly called the town “Kikinda – the Tile Capital”, after its tile factory, which is hardly a reason for any tourist to consider visiting the place.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. With successes like these, factory farmers do have cause for worry. ii) reasons for banning horse slaughter in the U.S.,

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

I admire these people tremendously, whether they go undercover on a factory farm or a research institute. Tags: animal abuse undercover investigation animal rights factory farm. This is very important work and an enlightening, though short, piece. I could never do what they do. I don't have the guts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 28, 2012

Teaser: In this excerpt from his book "The Accidental Salesperson," Chris Lytle explains how he tagged along with his wife on a tour of the Waterford Crystal factory in Ireland and took home a seminar's worth of sale insights. read more

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Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

Very interesting opinion piece about how factory farms facilitate the rapid spread of viruses into the food supply. And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA. And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factory farms. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. The writer is Jennifer Fearing, the CHIEF ECONOMIST for the Humane Society.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

These owls are getting squeezed into smaller and smaller territories as developers take their habitat for homes, factories, office buildings and businesses. He flew across a busy street to another car dealership where it looks as if he is a frequent visitor. We need to protect their remaining habitat and spread the word of their predicament.

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. Tags: Obama USDA farm animal welfare factory farm us agribusiness.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria. There are probably no happy animals in factory farming (ie. Factory farms are unlikely to be properly and regularly inspected by the USDA. Factory animals are voiceless victims. big corporate agribusiness.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

Ironically, Tesla currently builds a factory just a few miles from this important bird habitat, so much for electric vehicles and environmental protection. This has also made the Reed Parrotbill the symbol of a local initiative to protect the wetlands of Nanhui.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare. Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. Prop 2 requires that factory farms provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs. From the campaign website : (Nov.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

These family-friendly events are an opportunity for those concerned with the cruel and horrific practices of factory farming to take a stand in support of compassion for animals and raise awareness about the mistreatment of animals raised for food.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. Tags: UK europe spain pigs factory farm. Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. Conditions are so bad, some pigs are resorting to cannibalism.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

They are forced to work in factories owned by a hideous woman, Gretsch. Animals are indeed enslaved, but in real life they're not making widgets in factories. The factory is supposed to be a proxy for all of that, but it doesn't work for me. For instance, the animals are enslaved. Or any vegan message.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. This brings us one step closer to ending intense confinement of hens in factory farms. They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry.

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