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Don’t Feed The Birds!

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Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. The former is worse than the latter, though in some jurisdictions both would actually be considered illegal. It seems like the people that run an awful lot of parks don’t want you feeding the birds.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

July 13, 2010 To the Editor: Today tens of thousands of American farmers don’t even own the livestock they raise, and the conditions they raise animals in are dictated to them by a handful of extremely powerful companies that are concerned only with the bottom line. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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The Whistle Blowers

10,000 Birds

In December, 1990, a single pair of ducks and some young birds began to feed at the farm of Mr. Willie Ebanks, at Hutland, Northside, in Grand Cayman. Soon the ducks were joined by others and by 1992, 16 pairs were regularly feeding at his farm. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.