Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Here are just a few facts drawn from the column: Drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. law against causing the deaths of protected birds without a permit (and no wind-energy farms seem to have such permits).

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 231

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. The kicker is you don’t even have to hire a company that will lie to you about how safe their poisons are – you can just assume government agencies are watching your back, buy it from a store, and use it yourself.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. Then one day they are gone.

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Humane Eagles Investigation North America 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. Beacon Press, 2012. —————-. by Elizabeth Gehrman. Hardcover, 256 pages.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. Is this a book for American birders?

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Virginia Portland Industry New York City 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

That sounds important (the ABC press release is here ), but what is the dispute really about and what happens next? The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). Karlson Princeton University Press, June 2024; UK August 2024 Hardcover; 8.25 0691220956; ISBN-13 ?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

Even though a 2013 petition by the Royal Society of Protection of Birds failed to convince the Scottish parliament to make it official, the campaign to make the Golden Eagle Scotland’s national bird continues.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!

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Meat Industry Meat Industry Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways. The Passenger Pigeon.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

They may be killed in order to protect the health of humans (and other animals) if they are infected with a serious disease and cannot be quarantined. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 125) This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

The story of the flightless Dodo, discovered on the island of Mauritius in 1598 and killed off by 1700, is sad and familiar. by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), Number 57, Great Northern?

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2022

The company, ESI Energy LLC, built facilities in high-risk locations, failed to obtain permits, and its wind turbines killed approximately 150 eagles. Broadly summarizing, the information alleges that ESI violated the MBTA and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by failing to secure permits for several of its facilities in Wyoming.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. 978-1939125996

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