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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Trips endangered species India lapwings Sociable Lapwing' Red-wattled Lapwings are still numerous, but Sociables are still missing.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is doubtful that the best approach to conserving grain is to become a vegetarian.

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Meat Grown in a Petri Dish?

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From an opinion piece in the Times of India. Tags: meat meat alternatives vegetarian meatless. Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. They haven't been able to actually taste the pork they've grown because of lab rules.

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Horus Aged Ales: Osprey’s Fresh Catch

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Whitaker’s beautifully-composed example of avian portraiture – the like of which we see all too rarely on beer cans – was commissioned for Osprey’s Fresh Catch, a new India pale ale from Horus Aged Ales of Oceanside, California. A close-up of Spring Whitaker’s remarkable can art.

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On "The Age of Stupid"

Animal Person

and a middle-aged man who lives in New Orleans and lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, and who works/worked for Shell Oil, and an entrepreneur in India who started a low-cost airline for the people of his country (and we see none other than a Shell Oil truck delivering its fuel). A young woman in Nigeria (can you say Shell Oil?)

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