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The Pacific Wren of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

10,000 Birds

The place was full of parents with toddlers, kindergarten school groups, and walkers like us. Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. Still, a lifebird was on the way.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. For that you can blame a cowardly food industry and a cynical consumer movement, willing to sacrifice lives to further its antinuclear agenda.

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

10,000 Birds

A species which has been hunted in the United States for the last 50 years (and in spite of your assertion that hunting has somehow damaged midcontinent populations 2009 saw the highest count on record). Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted.

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