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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

The animals themselves identified as “civilised” and started a hunger strike in protest. Definitely, lack of songbirds. While driving along the Trekvaart canal I spotted hundreds of Tufted Duck with a nice sprinkling of Smew , Common Pochard and Common Goldeneye. Actually, no, they just starved to death for lack of care.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

It is chilling in its scope because it now expands the the definition of ‘animal enterprise terrorism’ to include acts that result in neither fear nor economic damages nor bodily injury. And then realize this: On November 13, 2006, the lame duck House of Representatives passed H.R.4239 That’s right.