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Evil Twin Brewing Falco India Pale Ale

10,000 Birds

Instead, he formulates his recipes on paper as blueprints for other brewmasters to follow, farming out production to several far-flung collaborators. The genus name Falco is said to derive from the Latin falx , meaning a sickle, the talon-like farm tool used to harvest grain, making it a fitting name for any malt beverage.

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Clemson Researcher Investigates Impacts of Cages on Laying Hens

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The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually.

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Animal Research Booming in State of Victoria

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Unwanted farm dogs are another source. In 2007, 394 dogs died during procedures for canine and human research. Animals for research purposes are coming from municipal shelters, breeders and the greyhound trade. From the Herald Sun. The fate of many others remains unclear.

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Agriculture Fears Possible "Cow Tax"

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The proposal was one of several drafted after a 2007 Supreme Court ruling found that greenhouse gases the animals emit through flatulence or belching amounts to air pollution. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

4 The Love Of Animals

In 2007 – at age 50 – I realized that the answer was right in front of me. I weighed 165 pounds on December 29th 2007. A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

18 editorial about the abuse of antibiotics in industrial hog farms. It not only brings light to a serious issue, but also begins to make the connection between factory farm practices and consumer choices. To the Editor: I applaud “ Antibiotic Runoff ,” your Sept. Hamilton Mill Valley, Calif.,