4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 14, 2009

Whether you’re visiting family or checking out a new vacation spot, does your cat or dog join you? Peggy Frezon, freelance writer and pet lover, has owned dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, hermit crabs, turtles and fish. Guest post By Peggy Frezon , Rensselaer, New York.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

And you do not acknowledge the individual care that pigs get in such systems and the protection from predators, diseases and the aggression that pigs often exhibit toward each other in group housing. Decisions on how best to house farm animals should be left to the family farmers, like me, who care for their animals every day.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb. 20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” People who study pigs say they are as intelligent as a 3-year-old child, smarter even than the dogs we share our homes with.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. The fury this meal caused my friends and family back in America motivated me to examine whether eating any animal was justified. Why was a dog more worthy of not being dinner than a pig? Foer misses the point of the debate completely.

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Los Angeles San Francisco Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The hunters currently pushing copper bullets have seen the x-rays proving that lead bullets splinter when they enter an animal, and they know that the meat hunters feed their families is filled with lead fragments (x-ray, left, of white-tailed deer.) On November 13, “The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act” will come in front of the Senate.

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Hunters Wildlife Rehabilitation Legislation Hunting 237

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2024

One study looked at whether the proximity to a road makes it more likely that a nest gets robbed by the usual suspects (not humans, but rather Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Green Cat Snake, Crested Goshawk, and Common Green Magpie). This study included a number of nests of the Puff-throated Babbler.

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Vietnam Birds Woodpeckers Bangladesh 246

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. But they always have their desire to not be killed.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

She has done an excellent job researching both the history of the cahow and of David Wingate, using historical primary sources for the first and interviews with Wingate’s colleagues, friends, and family for the second. She uses both sources well.

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? If they were pigs, would anyone care? Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is Vick a special kind of creep for what he did?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

Perhaps they are taught that other cultures eat animals other than cows, chickens, fish and pigs, I don't know. 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? One is male.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

As we wandered along the trail we soon encountered family groups of both White-winged Fairywrens and Variegated Fairywrens. There was also evidence of the damage that feral pigs can do all along the trail and along the water’s edge and we soon came across a small group of them. Feral pigs. Orange Chat. Turtle shell.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

He was adopted by the Masson family and was apparently the most loving dog all who met him had ever had the pleasure of being licked by. There are duck stories and elephant stories and pig stories, but the reason we hear about them is because they are extraordinary. But he then addresses that.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is against it for himself and his family. In the end, they can still have their dogs and eat their pigs, without feeling that they are doing anything wrong by favoring one species over another, or taking someone's life when they don't need to. Then again, he is not against the consumption of animals, " in general " (198).

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

The book’s entry on John James Audubon (subsumed interestingly under Number 18: Pig bristle paintbrushes) states that Audubon was financially well off and able to draw and paint birds across the U.S. through the sale of a “business venture” and drawing lessons.

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Mauritius Egypt Cyprus Collecting 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

This is not to say, however, that birders on holiday are, should they choose to travel with family, friends or other assorted loved ones, resigned to seeing nothing, or even nothing except the common stuff. I was thus able to pick an off-the-shelf ecotourism route and, having selected a company, customise it to my family’s needs.

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Bats Birds Elephants Badgers 243

Animal Ethics

MAY 30, 2009

For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir —rice, beans and pork—that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events. Part of my Latina identity is the sound of merengue at all our family parties and the heart wrenching Spanish love songs that we enjoy.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

KBJ: Humans and pigs are not just sentient, which already distinguishes them from microorganisms; they are, in Tom Regan’s terminology, “subjects of a life.” Suppose there is a man who wishes to end his life but regrets never having given his poor and hungry family any pleasure. But the question remains.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2012

This huge member of the Australian robin family is really tame in this carpark, making it probably the easiest place n the world to see the species (other than the Tableland it is only found in New Guinea). These attractive birds are quite the handsomest members of their family in Australia, and were just the thing to lift my mood.

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Kangaroos Guinea Pigs Turkey Guinea 211