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Snowy Plover Chicks on Okaloosa Island

10,000 Birds

For the most part it remains undeveloped, with rolling dunes, long beaches, and green marshes. Still, it’s a good sign that the parents successfully protected them through this stage, and I cross my fingers that they’ll both make it to adulthood. Snowy Plover Chick. Killdeer Standing Over its Nest.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

How far do we go in protecting them? Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. 22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach.