Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Here is a New York Times story about people who keep primates as pets.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors. It’s time to bird Cuba and it is time to learn more about Cuban naturalists. This New York Times article summarizes the current status of travel to Cuba.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

This years’ judges for the competition were: Sophie Uliano, author of New York Times bestseller Gorgeously Green; Summer Rayne Oaks, model, spokesperson, and expert for Discovery Network's Planet Green; Brita Belli, editor of E/The Environmental Magazine; and Josh Dorfman, author and host of The Lazy Environmentalist on Sundance Channel's The Green.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

I'm going to try hard to have this not become a rant, but " Even Among Animals: Leaders, Followers and Schmoozers ," by Natalie Angier in yesterday's New York Times begins with "even." Have they not ever observed nonhuman animals? Why is it surprising that nonhuman animals have personalities when human animals do?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about pet food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

According to a December 1970 article in the New York Times , there was a flock of 9 to 12 birds in Fort Tilden. Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It’s not the feline lack of musical discernment that I found disturbing (I don’t “get” Schubert’s symphonies either), but rather that Mr. Steiner owns a pet. Sandy Asirvatham Baltimore, Md., 22, 2009 To the Editor: I was shocked to read that Gary Steiner thinks his cat can’t appreciate Schubert’s late symphonies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

To the Editor: “ Should Most Pet Owners Be Required to Neuter Their Animals? ,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, July 30), is right: “The rate at which dogs are purchased and euthanized in this country is not a sign of our affection for them. It’s a sign of our indifference.”

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

For the same reason that most of us would not eat our pets, we should also not eat chickens, pigs or other animals. There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. Borders Jr. Louisville, Ky.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Snake Owners See Furry Bias in Invasive Species Proposal ” (news article, Jan. 9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. Michael Levin is a New York Times bestselling author.

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