Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The smaller the demand for meat, the lower its price; the lower the price, the lower the profit; and the lower the profit, the fewer the animals that will be raised and slaughtered on factory farms.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. Stenholm is a spokesperson for the "Horse Welfare Coalition"—a quintessential illustration of doublespeak, for the Horse Welfare Coalition is an inappropriately named organization that is working to keep horse slaughter legal in the United States.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

To the Editor: When Nicolette Hahn Niman refers to “a conscientious meat eater,” she is using an oxymoron. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. 1, 2009 The writer is the editor of Zero Energy Intelligence.com.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

I’m familiar with the slaughter of herons, egrets, and other pretty birds for their feathers, but I didn’t know that shorebirds were also targets and that the gunning trade greatly contributed to the demise of the Eskimo Curlew. So, this is an easy book to browse through, but a difficult book to use for direct reference.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Most of this book is about Eurasian Wryneck, as the subtitle indicates, though Red-throated Wryneck is referred to throughout and there is a chapter focused on the species. The latter is a nonmigratory, African endemic with a scattered, limited distribution. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

In the notes, she explains that she uses " nonhuman companion and nonhuman friend with reference to nonhumans treated with full respectl I use pet with reference to nonhumans who are sold, discarded, or otherwise disrespected" (204). By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. Or spend enough money.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." The Nimans move him, as do several other farmers, including one who "apologizes to his animals as they are sent off to slaughter" (244), as if that's any consolation to someone whose life you are about to take when you don't need to. He never says he is.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Oh, and if you want to impress someone or talk to an ornithologist about it, make sure to refer to it as sexual dichromatism. However, a life bulbul might be able to tell the sex (though not from the photos) – apparently, there are sex differences in the UV light range , which birds can see while we cannot.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Authors who referred to their animals by given names were instructed to use a string of letters and numbers instead." First of all, whether someone was born in a breeding center, under a porch or in my living room doesn't make them more or less entitled to a life free of enslavement, torture and slaughter.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

There’s even been speculation that all of the first seven gifts are meant to be birds, with the “five gold rings” really referring to “five goldspinks,” an archaic term for the goldfinch. This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders.

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Colombia Birds Bald Eagle Guyana 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Because of their great expense, spices in the Middle Ages were often reserved for feasts celebrating harvests, slaughters, and holy days as the old year waned, particularly around Christmas. True, the name cinnamomeus refers to the reddish-brown plumage of the male and has nothing to do with the spice harvested from Cinnamomum spp.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. This is a very disturbing video of Sandhill Cranes being slaughtered by “hunters.”

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