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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

10,000 Birds

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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. 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. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary.