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EU Bans Battery Cages

Critter News

Full article on Food Safety News. The law, finalized in 1999, comes after a 12-year "phase-out" period meant to allow egg farmers time to implement the costly transition away from battery cages. According to the Scotsman newspaper, replacing battery cages with more-hospitable "enriched" cages has alone cost U.K. As of Jan.

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Analogue vs. digital birding

10,000 Birds

Some time ago, I published a series of birding-for-beginners articles in my local birding magazine. Ben Lizdas commented somewhere how fascinated he is with optics: in this electronic era, the top-notch binoculars are true high-tech, yet they work without batteries. Where do you stand in the analogue vs. digital discussion?

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