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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

Birdsbesafe was invented in 2009, has a website filled with testimonials, and has received high praise from St. Will the people who determinedly allow their cats to slaughter wild birds use it? Birds birds and cats Birdsbesafe cat collars protect birds from cats' Does Birdsbesafe work? It certainly works better than nothing.

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Dog Death Squads in China

4 The Love Of Animals

Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. Can you imagine being forced to kill your own dog to save it from a more brutal slaughter? Thank you, Fred.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent. For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

March 2009 Contact: David Cantor, 215-886-7721 or RPA4all@aol.com Arriving at all 50 states’ governors’ offices in mid-March, a special request: Get our land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. -- if you'd like assistance or more information. Thanks and best wishes! Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

22, 2009 The writer teaches philosophy at Southern Methodist University and is the author of the forthcoming “ Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals.” How far do we go in protecting them? 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. 22, 2009 To the Editor: Gary Steiner’s case for veganism founders on the facts. Lawrence S.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

Journal of the American Dietetics Association 109(7), July 2009: 1266-1282.] I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. After several years of confinement and continual reimpregnation on a dairy farm, spent dairy cows are sent to slaughter where they are processed into ground beef.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

10,000 Birds

Since the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide (published as “Birds of Europe” in the US) from 2009, the field guide market for European guides is practically dead. This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders. Dragan). ==. Tristan). ==.

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