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So I'm from the New Appalachia?

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It's not as well-educated, sophisticated, healthy or well-off. It mirrors the lack of education and enlightenment of a generally poor area. And of course, let's not discuss factory farms down there. I grew up in the Central Valley of California and my mother owns a home there in Gustine.

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it. Any other factories on the agenda? The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.). I don't think of that as a restriction. fun" said one (female) child.

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On "Home"

Animal Person

As I've written previously, I never pushed him to go vegan, and now that he is I don't push him to do any vegan education. On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Historically, National Wildlife Refuges viewed the “Duck Factory” (game bird conservation) as a high priority, while relegating non-game issues to a lower rung. With already over $3 billion worth of incomplete projects, deeper funding cuts to National Wildlife Refuges could have catastrophic results.

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.) We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

10,000 Birds

Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. White-browed Coucal – Centropus superciliosus. Arad inlet.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff. For me, this book hit a lot of checkmarks, a lot of interests.

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