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Guest Post: Understanding Pet Food Labels

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Restaurant Grade” is a new term with no legal definition at this point; however, it refers to the quality of the ingredient as not only “human grade” but the same quality approved by FDA for grocery stores and restaurants. Any product that claims to contain meat but can sit on the shelf for months without spoiling must contain preservatives.

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. I suspect that meat consumption would decline dramatically under such a code; it would certainly make many of us less hypocritical. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist. And sadly, it is listed as Endangered.

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

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Abundance (of meat, drink). 5/1 The scandal of the ‘welfare hotels’ [in New York] where the city places homeless families has been simmering for many weeks. 560 Increased family allowances with supplementary allowances and children's tax allowances, the price of school meals, the price of welfare milk, [etc.]. HARRISON Descr.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. Paul’s family noticed that whenever he was about to have an attack, Tinker would get agitated. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults. Photo by Ginger Me.

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