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Searching for vultures in India

10,000 Birds

Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. This results in the cow’s corpse being left to be fed on by vultures. A dead cow that was treated with Diclofenac turned out to be poisonous to vultures. Oddly, I saw no rats, only a mongoose or two and a few stray dogs.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." And the day-old calves. what if those were human babies?

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