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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. And so, it was not until April 1991 that the last goat on San Clemente was shot, the final wary herds done in by grad students with sniper rifles and tame Judas goats with radio collars.

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

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Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feral cats, now is the time, as the county's Spay Shuttle is back in business (but for a whopping $40/cat rather than the original $15), and Pahokee ($25/cat) is open as well. Abundance (of meat, drink). HARRISON Descr.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. It’s a subject I’ve thought a lot about over the years, pretty much since I first started studying biology at undergraduate level. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”