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What is the State Bird of Maryland?

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In 1882 the legislature passed special provisions to protect the bird, decades before the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. However, they have suffered habitat loss not only in the United States, but also in Central and South America. In 1947 , Maryland made the oriole its state bird.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.