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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

10,000 Birds

I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Stereotypes are used again, in a different way, in the section on the feather industry.

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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. In " Food for the Soul ," Kristof once again yearns for the farm of his childhood which, for him, had "soul." Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with.

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

a hotel in which people on welfare are housed until more permanent quarters can be found for them; welfare manager, worker, a person engaged in looking after the welfare of people working in factories, mercantile establishments, etc.; 1/1 The number of family units on the welfare rolls has more than doubled in the past year.

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Consolidation of Egg Industry

Critter News

These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. egg industry continues to consolidate. egg industry is planning a strategic conference after the presidential election to plan for the future. Tags: eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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An Affront to the Idea of Family

Animal Person

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,