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New Book on Animal Rights Activism

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For instance, they caution that if "we're at a restaurant and there's a veggie burger on the menu but we give the server the third degree about the ingredients or about how it was cooked, we're most likely doing more harm than good." Tags: activism book reviews.

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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

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We sometimes overlook a story even when it's right under our noses. We've got a wallaby joey at the moment that has crispy fried ears because he stuck his head out of his mum's pouch and lost all his whiskers and cooked up his nose," Rowdon said. Tags: australia animal rescue wildfires wildlife. We are losers.

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Petrel Paradise

10,000 Birds

In particular the South Island destination of Kaikoura is world-renowned for the flocks of albatrosses and giant petrels floating right off the pelagic boat, and the ease of the trip makes it a must-visit for any visiting birder. The first to cruise past in a hurry were the stunning Cook’s Petrels. Wicked, right?

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On "Cheating" and Cookbook Authors

Animal Person

Recommendations included: know the people who produced your food, get out of the supermarket (go to a farmer's market), and cook at home more (especially junk food, as if you had to make your own french fries you'd eat a lot fewer of them). You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't.

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Animals as Raw Material

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From plastics made from feather protein to diesel fuel made from fat to organic fertilizer made from poultry litter, the USA's top meat producers are developing new uses and markets for the animal parts that humans won't eat, says Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association in Alexandria, Va. Tags: morbid thoughts.

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Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds

10,000 Birds

What’s Cooking in Crow Kitchen Half-Bassed Ackwards? Wicked, right? Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Hat-tip to Stella. Get yours today! Or These Blasts From The Past The Goose Whisperer? Boycott BP? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? “The Volkovs took their food seriously and once they began cooking were a near-unstoppable force” (chapter 13). b) Who will play author Jonathan C.

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