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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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448 Great Things to do in Nature

10,000 Birds

Nature-Deficit Disorder, as described by Richard Louv in his excellent book Last Child in the Woods, is a growing concern in our ever-industrialized world and describes a generation of children so plugged into their electronic world that they have lost their connection with nature. Ken Keffer was born and raised in Wyoming.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. You should try it too.

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