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McDonalds Makes Positive Move to Help Sows

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I'm no fan of McDonalds, but any little bit of help is progress. The McDonald’s Corporation said on Monday that it would begin working with its pork suppliers to phase out the use of so-called gestational crates, the tiny stalls in which sows are housed while pregnant. Here's an excerpt.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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The Heard and Mcdonald Islands are also extremely remote and Clements lists the Heard Island Shag as a full species, although Sibley/Monroe lists it as a subspecies of Imperial Shag. There is one bird species that, according to my above categorization, is quite possible the single most remote species of bird in the world.

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