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A Gentlemen’s Big Day’s Birding

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Our next stop was a pig field where Andrew had heard Stone Curlews a couple of weeks before, but on this cool and misty morning there wasn’t a sound to be heard. So it was that at 3.30am on the morning of Saturday, 18 May, the two of us were to be seen listening for birds at our local nature reserve, Hopton Fen (a wet and reedy valley fen).

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November is. Awareness Month

Animal Person

Having a biological child isn't supporting an exploitation industry and at odds with the goal of the cessation of animal use the way buying from a breeder or pet store is. And the production of her insulin (Vetsulin) involved the use of animal products (from pigs). At least she eats vegan food, I tell myself.

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On Bestiality

Animal Person

People who are breeders use racks to allow a male animal mounting the female without damage. This occurs in all animal breeders: bovine, horses, dogs, cats, pigs, and other animals. Breeders force a female to have sex with a male even if the female doesn't want to have sex. Any takers for any part of that?

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