10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2022

Pescado moqueado, a fish cooked by steam from a clay stove, at the Sabanitas Community. On hot days, I particularly enjoyed various soups, e.g. ajicero , which is a thick fish soup cooked with different types of peppers, and fishes. The food was tasty and hearty. Photo by Juan Carlos. In general, local, river fish was unbeatable.

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Colombia Birds Cooking Venezuela 238

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

All this energy can really do is to cook you, like in a microwave, but for that to happen you would need to be in a microwave (or perhaps right next to a very strong emitter, so do avoid climbing those huge towers with the microwave antennas on them!). However, extensive research has shown no evidence of harmful effects.

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Humane Compassion Research Cooking 229

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2011

I gave it the ultimate test and tried it after we had cooked curry. Not only is the diffuser great to look at (and they have tons of fun options to fit any decor), but it really does work to remove odors from the air!

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Cooking Pets Birds 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! We test the hypothesis that these suites of traits have evolved independently on each island via natural selection pressures from one of two predator regimes – birds-only and birds + snakes.

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Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines Apes 178

Critter News

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

From plastics made from feather protein to diesel fuel made from fat to organic fertilizer made from poultry litter, the USA's top meat producers are developing new uses and markets for the animal parts that humans won't eat, says Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association in Alexandria, Va.

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Animal South Carolina Meat Litter 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

One researcher tested British school children to see if they could find their way home by driving them blindfolded, in a bus, out into the country and asking them to point their way home. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them.

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Compassion Research Cooking Transported 206

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

You will enjoy a much better meal and can safely cook it to your preferred doneness, although it will cost more. He stated that the department could demand mandatory testing, but that it had to consider what effect that would have on companies as well as consumers.

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New York Times New York Hamburgers Meat Industry 40