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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman’s suggestion that the findings do not apply to smaller farms, the United Nations and the University of Chicago reports demonstrate the inefficiency of beef “production” because a cow must be fed to convert grass or grain calories into protein before a human can consume even “humane” or grass-fed beef. Indeed, in Ms.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

When you throw the feral Cat in there, not only do they push out the indigenous wild carnivores, but they are hunting animals that are not quite adapted to avoiding them as well as they may be to avoiding other animals. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

But the rest of us rat-killing, horse-racing, lobster-boiling, deer-hunting carnivores should take the planks out of our eyes before trying to remove the speck from Vick's. I still eat eggs that come from battery hens, even though I do try to buy free range, and I wear leather, even though I only buy it used.