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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl. And how much land would be required to contain ranches like the one owned by Ms.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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