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Arrowood Farm Brewery: Bramble Farmhouse on Raspberries

10,000 Birds

Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. Considering all that, it’s no small miracle that Arrowood Farm Brewery was able to spare enough local raspberries from the insatiable appetites of birds to make Bramble.

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Time.com Article on the Morals of Eating Meat

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Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary appears in this article. Pretty intense, but I hope people read it. There is a disturbing hedonism to eating. I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. We just don't think about where that flesh came from.and most of us don't care.

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.

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The Cry of the Curlew

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The day before I photographed Yellow 1M I’d read a fascinating article in the weekly magazine Shooting Times , written by Liam Bell, head gamekeeper on a family-owned estate in South Shropshire, not far from the Welsh border. He went on to write that “Time was when every farm in the dale had nesting curlew, but they have slowly disappeared.

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Do gophers farm roots? It's not as simple as viral articles claim.

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Come to Finca Luna Nueva Lodge in Costa Rica!

10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. The edge effect of their organic farm provides nice and easy birdwatching in the gardens and the decent-size private reserve gives a nice challenge if you want to try for more secretive species.

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CBS News Runs Series on Factory Farms

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Katie Couric did a story on the use of antibiotics on factory farms in the US and the potential harm to humans. Here is an article about the series. Of course, the question remains as to whether these animals should be in these factory farming conditions in the first place, regardless of antibiotics' use.