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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law?

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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

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A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. dairy cows were slaughtered over seven years to artificially reduce the supply of milk and drive up prices.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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Look no further than Reckitt Benckiser’s website: “The Company strives to act in accordance with the laws … of the countries in which it operates, (and it) operates with integrity.”. Need an example of “hypocrisy?” What to do? They pass around the website of Safe Rodent Control , which gives alternatives to poisons.

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