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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences. They will still lack the freedom to engage in natural behaviors like foraging and nesting. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil. Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It's a choice.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

But Northern Cardinal, Catbird, and White-throated Sparrow do not appear until the 270s, during a visit to Central Park while on business trip to New York City. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Geography is destiny.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. 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. This is good stuff.

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