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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). The grazers are glorified farm animals, but they have been labelled by some very irresponsible people as “wild”. It’s the only Dutch eagle.

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Investigation Reveals Cruel Treatment of Pigs in Europe

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It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Traditional farming landscape of small holdings, hedges and groves draped in snow… I actually hate snow, but on days like this, cannot resist it. A hundred Smew and a thousand geese later, through the gently rolling hills we head for the Labudovo okno, by one Great Grey Shrike and several more Crested Larks.

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Meat Grown in a Petri Dish?

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Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. So many people I know get really guilty when they hear about conditions at factory farms, but then just keep eating the same things. From an opinion piece in the Times of India. Da da da da!

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Dutch May Ban Kosher Slaughter of Livestock

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This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. Excerpted from the Irish Times. THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock.

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