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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. Many of the beef industry’s problems result from feedlots that consume tremendous amounts of grain and that pour out huge sloughs of waste. It is essential for the industry’s survival.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

10,000 Birds

Some of the lazier Common Moorhens apparently try to pass the arduous work of raising their chicks on to other species -a paper describes how Little Bitterns are utilized as surrogate parents. I am giving them the typical consultant answer: It depends. Seek geese in meadows and mudflats, but avoid them in paddy fields ( source ).

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