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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Part of Boase’s mission here is to piece together the lives and careers of the four women who founded the RSPB, now one of Great Britain’s most powerful and richest nonprofit organizations: Emily Williamson, Eliza Phillips, Winifred, Duchess of Portland, and Boase’s favorite, Etta Lemon. This is where Boase excels.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

James Siegel Portland, Me., Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? What is greener than forage-fed meat? I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl.