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Linkwood Distillery: 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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The eagle’s alleged appetite for livestock has made it the traditional enemy of farmers and shepherds – especially in Scotland’s sheep country – and though claims of its gluttony are undoubtedly exaggerated, pardon for the Golden Eagle has been slow in coming.

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Cow Birds

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They’re all named for livestock. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! If you didn’t win a free copy of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds , better go buy a copy.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Striking westwards towards the South Sudanese border, we pressed on to the town of Key Afar, noted for its bustling market frequented by four local tribes. Their fragile homes, meager belongings and scant livestock attested to this, and yet the people seemed content with their lot in life.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change.

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Keep Your Eyes on the Trail: Mad Cow Edition

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Well, we Bronx boys are naturally suspcious of livestock, for reasons I still don’t understand. Luckily, nobody was hurt, and once the moment passed, we roundly agreed that the mad cow attack was one of the most memorable parts of our press trip. Who worries about a cow, right?

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We Cannot Allow This Administration’s Environmental Policies To Stand

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Just yesterday, the Department of Interior, headed by Ryan Zinke, issued new direction to federal agencies to revise current federal Sage Grouse conservation plans to allow for more fossil fuel development, livestock grazing and other land uses that could negatively affect the grouse and hundreds of other species in the Sagebrush Sea.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has consulted unpublished interviews and diaries, government documents, local newspapers, archival collections, and hundreds of books and magazines, mostly on history politics but also on other areas that impacted McLean’s life, like livestock farming. Note: This review is based on a PDF copy of the book supplied by the author.