Critter News
DECEMBER 15, 2008
I'd rather not any meat at all, thank you, but for those meat addicts like my husband, this could help. Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, humane, and "commercially viable" test-tube meat by 2012.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
As early as 2012, public schools would be prohibited from serving fish, poultry or meat that had been routinely treated with antibiotics. "We We tell people to take antibiotics only as prescribed for the very reason that they not develop resistance to these drugs they may need when they are truly sick," said Mr Florez.
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. 20, 2012 The writer is a doctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird. 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647. Speller, C.,
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. The last Algonquin Christmas Bird Count with very high numbers was the winter of 1984/85 when 1474 Evening Grosbeaks were found on the count (Birds of Algonquin, Tozer 2012). THREE IRRUPTIVE PASSERINES.
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