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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning. Ranchers oppose the move.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But today these livestock operations don’t have to be unwelcome neighbors in their communities. Recently they have invested millions of dollars into research conducted by Purdue University. Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book. Greeley has a historian’s instincts, perhaps stemming from his training as an archivist (though he ended up, he says vaguely, in business and market research).