Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. Is public outcry greater? What gives?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We can only surmise that Trinity gave their saison a French name in keeping with the style’s origins in French-speaking Walloon region of Belgium, and that their choice of a blackbird was meant to represent the unusual dark color of Merle (traditional Belgian saisons are mostly very pale).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

Better yet, Ommegang’s domestic production allowed drinkers a taste of Belgium at a lower cost than the imports – and without the risk of stale, corked, or skunked beer posed by dusty old bottles after their rough transatlantic passage.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In Belgium, sour ales in both the brown style of East Flanders and the red style from West Flanders are often blended with fruit during their long aging period, traditionally using cherries or raspberries. Luckily, Casa Agria was able to save enough of this fruit from the ravenous waxwing hordes to add to Zarza Marrón.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

Thanks to the miracle of fermentation, these flavors can be preserved in beer all year round, as is the custom in Belgium. We’re at least another quarter of a year from peak raspberry season in the summer, but unlike the robin, we needn’t wait for fresh, ripe berries in July to enjoy their tart, luscious flavor.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 13, 2009

Bark Busters has grown into the largest and most trusted dog training company in the world with trained therapists helping dogs in Australia, the United States, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the UK, Japan, Israel, Taiwan and Canada. The company’s Canadian website is www.barkbusters.ca.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2009

According to this BBC story, city officials in Ghent, Belgium, are encouraging all residents to go vegetarian one day a week. Thursday has been officially designated "Veggie Day." As a result, the main menu in restaurants on Thursdays will be vegetarian.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Not that Belgium is any stranger to pilsner, the cold-fermented golden lager born in Bohemia that took the world by storm in the mid-nineteenth century, as any drinker of Stella Artois – Belgium’s homegrown interpretation – can tell you.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2018

Despite its ancient lineage, witbier appeared doomed to remain an obscure and curious footnote in the history of brewing when the last remaining producer in Belgium shut off its brew-kettle for good in 1957.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

More dramatically memorable is Dunn’s experience in Bolivia, where he hoped to travel to Chalalan Lodge, an eco-lodge run by the local indigenous population, but ends up facing the 2019 election protests with blockades and a threat of violence at every road leaving the city.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. Generally, I need to have cleared immigration and/or spent some time in the country actually visiting it.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In Belgium, dark, sour ales are traditionally paired with rich braises and stews, particularly the famous carbonnades flamandes , a slow-cooked, sweet-and-sour beef and beer stew from Flanders that’s worth cooking at home on a very cold winter day.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Our American horses are not being shipped to the hungry in Africa; they are being served in the most pricey restaurants in France, Belgium and Japan. Moreover, her defense of horsemeat on the grounds that it is “a traditional hardship food” is specious.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2021

True, it’s not even yet midsummer and we’re still more than half a year away from Christmas. But I do have a perfectly valid reason for celebrating Christmas in June with this week’s featured beer, Saint-Médard Cuvée de Noël from the French brewery Brasserie au Baron.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

Towards the end of the winter though a business trip was to take me first to Belgium and then to northern Germany, and going through the Netherlands past that particular village was just a minor detour. So I went for it, I got there, I found the village, I found the place but not the bird.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. The life list was pumped a further 27 sp up to 3953.

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