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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

The grazers are glorified farm animals, but they have been labelled by some very irresponsible people as “wild”. The animals themselves identified as “civilised” and started a hunger strike in protest. Nowadays, the numbers are being controlled through culling. Actually, no, they just starved to death for lack of care.

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Animal Health Care is Part of the Bottom Line

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I'm not arguing about the methods as I'm not a veterinarian, but it's a good example of the clinical discussion of costs when it comes to managing farm animal health. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.

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