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Companies' cultivated chicken cells obtain regulatory approval

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Two companies have received final approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin commercial production and sales of human food from cultured animal cells to the public.

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

10,000 Birds

Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. We humans tend not to think of utility poles and wires as “beautiful” or “natural” elements of the environment, when we notice them at all. As Daniel L.

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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Herbert is Managing Director of Bird Uganda Safaris, LTD and his company offers a variety of birding and wildlife tours of the most naturally resplendent regions of Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.

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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China – The Raptor Edition

10,000 Birds

Hopefully, this role gives the birds some protection, as indicated here : “Himalayan vultures are highly respected within the Buddhist culture of the Tibetan plateau, playing a unique role in a centuries-old sky burial tradition (feeding of human corpses to vultures at specific sites) that is followed by about four million Tibetan people.

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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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Like many humans, it is presumed to be monogamous (source: HBW). The US company NE Pigeon Supplies presumably is involved in supplying materials to keep and breed pigeons. Still, a weird and uncomfortably human-centric way of categorizing bird species, if you ask me, which I am pretty sure you will not.

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Humane Society Exposes Petland Practices

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The Humane Society has another great investigation into the shady practices of a corporate giant. Not so, says the Humane Society. This news story slipped by in November. This time it's Petland, who I'm glad to say has no stores in my area (that I know of.) but that's another post.) but that's another post.)

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Another Company Plans to Make Money from Recycling Animal Carcasses

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The company is Biosphere Technologies and the patented technology is Biorefinex. And again, I ask, what about all the human corpses sitting in all these cemeteries. And again, I ask, what about all the human corpses sitting in all these cemeteries. Waste not, want not. It also keeps carcasses out of landfills and incinerators.

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