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Casa Tangara dowii, Costa Rica, or over the Misty Mountains cold

10,000 Birds

Casa dowii is located in Cartago Province, along the Panamerican Highway in the Navarro Sombrero Protected Area that buffers Tapanti and Los Quetzales National Parks. All ingredients are fresh, obtained a day earlier from various farms in the neighbourhood. I sent a video of the interior to my wife, she said, oh, it’s so charming.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

4 The Love Of Animals

Celebrity pooches recently received the HollyWOOF, Distinctive Assets’ annual gift bag of the newest innovative dog products. For those D-List smells, itches and skin issues comes Farm Dog Naturals’ new line of products, Pet Urine Eco Cleaner, Salvation Dry Skin & Crusty Nose Salve and Restore Itch Relief.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. Mentally, they go insane from boredom and stress, just as our dogs or cats would if they were kept in tiny crates or carriers for their entire lives.

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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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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

And by the way, he debunks the idea of dogs and unconditional love, as well as the idea that pet owners are less lonely than people who don’t own pets. At least his research on pit bull-types of dogs demonstrates the injustice they face. . The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure. They are extraordinary.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” People who study pigs say they are as intelligent as a 3-year-old child, smarter even than the dogs we share our homes with. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food.

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

Animal Ethics

The law also made it a crime to sell videos in which animals were tortured to death by being burned alive, as well as videos of illegal dog fights. Similarly, child pornography is not protected by the First Amendment. I hope the Supreme Court will see clear to protect animals from such gratuitous harm and exploitation.