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The Ubiquitous European Starling: The Bird We Love to Hate

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The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for “both economic and cultural reasons. 1 ” By 1877 New York pharmacist Eugene Schieffelin, an avid admirer of Shakespeare, was the society’s driving force.

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To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the environment, torture animals and make meat less safe (“ A Food Manifesto for the Future ,” column, Feb. If they are, producers are subject to fines up to $37,500 per day under tough new federal regulations.

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5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. As you note, the lack of media coverage of the livestock sector’s contribution to climate change is one reason it has escaped large-scale public outrage. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec. This is stupid.

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962), which would phase out antibiotics use in livestock for growth or preventative purposes unless manufacturers could prove that such uses don’t endanger public health. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept.

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The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Janet Treadaway New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: I, too, am a farm boy.

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To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation. Yet Al Gore does not even mention the need for Americans to reduce meat consumption as we attempt to rescue ourselves from the climate crisis.