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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va.,