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A Dietary Alternative for Feral Cats?

10,000 Birds

An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. Except, possibly, for Chicken McNuggets.) (Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feral cats?).

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Groups Urge FDA Ban on Feeding Chicken Feces to Cows.Wait, WHAT???

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McDonald's Corp., A coalition of food and consumer groups that includes Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice. the nation's largest restaurant user of beef, also wants the FDA to prohibit the feeding of so-called poultry litter to cattle.

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

10,000 Birds

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Horned Screamer Michael McDonald is a lot like Wile E Coyote and would like to see a Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo ! My most-desired Brazilian bird?

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

10,000 Birds

Further studies are needed …” If you use a bad online translation engine to translate the Chinese name of the Northern Lapwing into English, you will end up with the “Crested Wheat Chicken” (Fèng tóu mài ji). And indeed, the Tel Aviv McDonald’s does not sell any Hoopoe Burgers.

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Proposal for the National Bird of Australia

10,000 Birds

Pros – it’s big, doesn’t look too much like a chicken, tastes good, is found in most of Oz and has some experience of the job. I learnt this week that this bird is also known as a bin chicken. The noble bin chicken… I mean Australian White Ibis. The Torresian Crow – by Richard McDonald CC.

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