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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. At one point during my year living in China, I ate dog. Arguments like "Let Them Eat Dog" caricatures the antifactory farm position, which is a shame because it's an important argument to hear. Howland Northport, N.Y.

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Red-crowned Cranes on Hokkaido

10,000 Birds

One study makes one rather weird and disturbing observation – in China, the number of captive birds has risen faster than can be explained by the breeding of captive birds (more than 1500) alone. The most likely reason is that it is just not that attractive to watch – clumsy rather than graceful, labored rather than sexy.

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