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The Other Side of the Egg Debate

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Hetty Alcuitas, a volunteer with Grassroots Women, said she sympathizes with the environmental and animal-rights arguments against caged chickens. But with battery eggs costing about $2 a dozen and organic free-range eggs costing between $5 and $6 a dozen, the impact of the proposed change goes beyond poultry.

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Consolidation of Egg Industry

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Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information. These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

10,000 Birds

Some examples of animal names working the other way around – with the Latin name sounding naughty – can be found here. Like this bird family b. ” At Tianmashan, one can almost always hear Grey-capped Greenfinches. A relative of this species is the Yellow-bellied Tit. Like bad jokes and c.

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