10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually.
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Americans systematically exploit and kill animals - sometimes for scientific progress; sometimes for leather jackets, ham sandwiches, or horse-racing. This is part of the piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Chefs place live lobsters in pots of boiling water.
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Seriously, folks, if you are going to respect someone, you're not going to hold them captive and kill them. It involves not killing them. Potent if symbolic? Not eating them.
Animal Person
MAY 26, 2010
When I started blogging, I thought that if more people sought out free-range, grass-fed "beef," more animals would be saved/fewer would be created. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt., Kristof’s column.
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