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Agriculture Fears Possible "Cow Tax"

Critter News

4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 Remember cows "emit" methane.) Gimme, gimme, gimme!

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

10,000 Birds

Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. The love of nature is evident in his chapters about his parents and siblings; his family is ever-present in his musings on trees and springs and cows. Drew Lanham is a black man.

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Selva Bananito was actually founded in the seventies but back then, it was a sizeable farm like any other. Fair parts of the property were used to cultivate different crops, some areas were pasture for cows and horses, and other areas were covered in forest that was meant to be logged, selectively or otherwise.

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On "That's Why We Don't Eat Animals"

Animal Person

And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals. The significant problem with this book is that the solution to the problems posed (which begin with "On factory farms. ") could easily be some Farm Forward-endorsed small operation where many of the horrors of factory farming don't exist.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Keith, Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, is extremely close to reaching our goal of collecting 10,000 signatures on our "Truth Behind Labels" petition to the USDA to tell them their "naturally raised" label is not natural. We're currently at 9,556 signatures—96% of the way there!

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A Self-Interested Reason to Not Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

last year—28 million pounds—went to pigs, chickens, and cows, which in turn creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant super germs. In 2008, the FDA issued its second limit on the use of cephalosporins in cows, pigs, and chickens, citing the importance of cephalosporin drugs for treating disease in humans.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

The farm boy hears thy tender voice, And visions come of crystal days, With sugar-camps in maple ways, And scenes that make his heart rejoice. But now a flash of eager wing, Flitting, twinkling by the wall, And pleading sweet and am’rous call,– Ah, now I know his heart doth sing! Thanks for visiting! The proposal from U.S.

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