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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb.

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Going Green is Always in Fashion

4 The Love Of Animals

The eco-friendly cat litter introduced a new recyclable bag – one of the first in the pet care industry – in January 2010. Yesterday’s News brand cat litter is manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company which promotes responsible pet care, humane education, community involvement and the positive bond between people and their pets.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

10,000 Birds

The species disappeared from the record for several decades afterwards due to the war and all, but it popped up again in the mid-1880′s where it was reported to occur in decent numbers across much of the southeast all the way west to the Mississippi bottomlands of southeast Missouri’s bootheel. In Missouri in 1948.