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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Many of the beef industry’s problems result from feedlots that consume tremendous amounts of grain and that pour out huge sloughs of waste.

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The Dracula Bird

10,000 Birds

But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle. Also, as ranchers increasingly moved their free-range cattle into feedlots, they settled down and became incredibly numerous. And that represents an enormous number of parents from other species neglecting their own young. Starling -numerous.

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Collaborative List – November 2018

10,000 Birds

He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. A big thank you goes out to Tristan, who demonstrated that at least one person reads this drivel.

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