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San Francisco Considers Banning Pet Sales

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If it passes, San Francisco residents would have to go to a shelter or rescue group to adopt an animal. It would set a national precedent, even if it is San Francisco. I can't believe the pet industry would allow such legislation without a fight. Tags: california san francisco legislation pets.

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Pelican Brewing Company: Brut India Pale Ale

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The IPA portfolio seems to grow almost yearly and the latest addition arrived only at the very end of 2017 – and already, industry pundits are writing it off as a passing fad. When used in brewing, the result is an impossibly light and bone-dry beer that – when done well – is quite reminiscent of a brut sparkling wine.

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The Plume Hunter

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Interesting to learn, for example, that in 1885 more than five million birds were killed in the United States for the millinery industry, and that in 1904 market hunters in Oregon killed over 120 tons of waterfowl for the restaurant trade in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

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Greenport Harbor Brewing Company Black Duck Porter

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Porter was an immensely popular beer in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world, and it was certainly the first beer the British – or anyone else – learned to produce, ship, and market in truly imperial quantities – the first Industrial Age beer.

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Birding In Low Places

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Not long after I discovered that place, I saw my very first rare bird…a Ruff , which was hanging out in a flood control channel in an industrial area. Pine Lake Park, San Francisco, CA. The first place I started birding a lot was a sewage treatment plant…I still equate the smell of human waste with great birds.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The meat industry is environmentally devastating, incredibly inhumane and now potentially the end to us all. Edward Machtinger San Francisco, April 26, 2009 The writer is an associate professor of medicine and director of the Women’s H.I.V. Program, University of California, San Francisco.