10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

The sharp strings are a menace to passing birds – especially kites and other raptors – who cannot see them and sometimes suffer grievous, if not fatal, wounds. Unwilling to leave the suffering birds to die, they began bringing them home, asking veterinarians to make house calls, and keeping the recuperating birds on their roof.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

The eagle was so hypothermic I was reluctant to put her in a transport box. We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. I put a blanket over her shoulders, as if she were an injured, elderly person, and carried her back to the truck.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

And you’ve posted a link to a petition to an airline to ask them to stop transporting trophies. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. I’m just saying that it’s a bit more… Look, I understand you have an opinion. And that lions are really cute. I’m sorry.

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Lions Sierra Leone Hunting Buffalo 257

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

As I skulked around my own house, all I could picture was Emily tearing Kermie limb from limb, then suffering a grisly death from ingesting the poison that ran through Kermie’s froggy veins. Outside he went, transported in plastic, back to his home in the wilds of suburban West Palm Beach.

Greyhounds 100

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. 25, 2010

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Horse Slaughter Slaughtered 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. Most people hold that it is wrong to cause animals unnecessary suffering.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Lacto-Ovo Meat Ethics 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

Snakes may die during the capture and transport process, or they may be housed inhumanely in a small aquarium they can barely fit into. And all of this trouble and suffering for what? You don’t take snakes for a walk or play with them in a field or let them sleep in your bed at night.

New York Times 40

New York Times Wayne Pacelle Humane Society Of The United States New York 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Livestock accounts for at least 21 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions globally -- more than all forms of transportation combined. Livestock production consumes 70 percent of the water in the American West -- water so heavily subsidized that if irrigation supports were removed, ground beef would cost $35 a pound.

Meat 40

Meat Livestock Transported Washington 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). We have already seen that Jonathan thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily. What does he think about killing animals?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Vegetarian 40