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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Regina Weiss Brooklyn, July 12, 2010 Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. But the people who raise and package beef share a commitment to aggressively finding and applying safety solutions that keep them out of our food.

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What is the National Bird of Honduras?

10,000 Birds

It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us.Or

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. Is the purpose finding new hunting opportunities? Nobody needs to eat them. They are shot for sport, and sometimes for food.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. One important reason is the wide discrepancy in mid-winter count survey numbers—in Tennessee those figures were 44,000 counted in 2010 versus only 12,000 counted in 2011.

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