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Belgian Bill Calls for Pig Castration WITH Anesthesia

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Tags: europe pigs castration farm animal welfare belgium agribusiness.

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Bodegas Navarro Lopez Laguna de la Nava Gran Reserva (2013)

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And Kerckhoven’s native Antwerp (in what is today modern Belgium) was under Spanish rule until 1714. The Laguna de la Nava Gran Reserva is made exclusively from Tempranillo grapes, the most-planted red variety in Spain and the signature one grown for Rioja.

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Belgian City Goes Vegetarian Once a Week

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Last week, the City of Ghent in Belgium started eating vegetarian one day a week. Public officials and politicians will start, with school children following in September. It's their way of acknowledging the impact of livestock on the environment.

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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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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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Trinity Brewing Company: You Never Even Call Me By My Name

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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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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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After three visits to southern Italy, followed by a lone excursion to Belgium, we’ll head back south to end our month-long “Grand Tour” of falconry-themed wine and ales in Portugal.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

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Belgium is – quite justifiably – the most famous bastion of such relict preindustrial beers, home to some beers with truly ancient lineages, as well as more modern formulations that proudly incorporate old techniques and ingredients that would seem hopelessly obsolete anywhere else.

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