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Enter to Win a Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan Pet Travel Product from AutoAnything!

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AutoAnything has a variety of roof racks & cargo carriers for your lifestyle and for all your family road trips. This Giveaway is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Giveaway Rules: No purchase necessary.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company.

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From Today's New York Times

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Regardless of what we choose to eat, doing so will reduce our dietary carbon footprint by half because “about half of the food produced in the United States is thrown away.” Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. Toney Union, N.J.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. Unfortunately, irradiated meat and poultry can’t be found on store shelves. Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif.,

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Tyrannosaurus rex didn’t exist yet.

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Adopt A Turkey!

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Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, promotes legislative, policy, and individual lifestyle changes to help farm animals.

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