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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

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And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? When is violence toward an animal in a video gratuitous? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive? Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient?