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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9

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Trinity Brewing: Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal

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Once an obscure, rustic product hard to find outside of its Wallonian homeland, saisons are now familiar to drinkers around the world, who know them as refreshing, zesty ales loaded with spicy and fruity flavors produced by distinctive farmhouse yeast strains that saison brewers have cultivated for generations. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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