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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

I have one older riding horse and occasionally some laying hens. I buy pasture-raised meat, milk and eggs from local farmers who I know personally, because the animals are healthier than industrially raised animals, and I find that the quality is better. 13): I live in rural Pennsylvania.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

10,000 Birds

People apparently catch and eat Yellow-breasted Buntings because they think its meat has aphrodisiac properties ( source ), which leads to it being categorized as Critically Endangered. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal.

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