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The Conflict Between Animal Welfare and Agribusiness

Critter News

Compassion is perceived to hurt profits. It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison. This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they can?

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