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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit. It is sometimes necessary to find food though.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

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The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. With successes like these, factory farmers do have cause for worry. ii) reasons for banning horse slaughter in the U.S.,

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An Affront to the Idea of Family

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Of course, you're supposed to hop onto the following train of thought: These are good people. What you're supposed to be buying into is the idea that if a family owns a farm it is somehow qualitatively different (and of course, better) than a farm that isn't family owned. You see midwestern folk in overalls with tired faces.

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From Today's New York Times

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11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

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As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). Cattle might be overproduced because of government subsidies and new markets found for meat.

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Collaborative List – February 2019

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Without including the new pin in the map, countries this month featured; USA, Australia, Serbia, Bahrain, India, Kuwait, New Zealand, UK, Ghana and of course, Costa Rica. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. old angel factory area. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. All will be revealed in good time. 15 Jan 2019.

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Collaborative list – May 2019

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Willcox–Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course. Willcox–Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course. old angel factory area. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Casa de Conrad, Portal, AZ. 20 May 2019. Scaled Quail – Callipepla squamata. 20 May 2019.

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