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DNA Bar Codes Could Help Identify Illegal Bush Meat

Critter News

This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather.

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. There are actually much nicer photos of the Purple-crested Turaco in another blog post of mine, Birding Mkuze. If you are a hammerhead, does everything look like a nail to you? And it gets kind of grumpy if these are not available.

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Should We Legalize Dog Meat?

Animal Ethics

Should we legalize dog meat for human consumption? For a discussion of the issue, see William Saletan’s recent post at the Human Nature Blog. Saletan discusses some reader reactions to his first post on legalizing dog meat here. Should we be eating dog meat? What's next? Soylent green? What do you think?

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Growing Meat vs. Going Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

In today's Dot Earth post " Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? ," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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What’s in a Name: Northern Goshawk

10,000 Birds

At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds. Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

Critter News

This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.

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What Foods you should Avoid Feeding your Dog?

4 The Love Of Animals

Meat and Bones. Raw meat, fish, and eggs pose the same danger to dogs as they do to humans. Still, your dog should avoid certain kinds of meat, cooked or not. Lean cuts of meat that have been thoroughly cooked work fine as long as all fat and skin have been removed.

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