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Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019)

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Who knows – perhaps early humans got the idea of cutting and hanging meat by watching these shrikes at work in their arboreal abbatoirs? Like previous wines we’ve tasted from Castellare di Castellina, the 2019 chianti classico is predictably excellent, a bright, exuberant example offering aromas of cedar, eucalyptus, and redcurrant.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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Honeyguides, for example, are strongly attracted to the smell of wax. Like the tube-nosed birds, new world vultures detect the smells of rotting meat carried by the winds. Most appear to have a very limited sense of smell and mammals appear to have better developed olfactory glands.

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Animals as Inputs in Accounting

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Here's an example of "joint costs" that says all you need to know about animals as nothing more than inputs in a manufacturing process. The meat packing industry takes a single input, a steer, and produces many different final products.

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Leaping Foxes

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The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. But of course the mammalian meat eaters will be happy too and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow. Then of course, there are the predators. Gotta be mouse gradation.

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Ezra Klein Bemoans Vegetarian Fare at Restaurants

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But this is another example of the general ignorance displayed in restaurants and cooking shows like Top Chef. Real food only comes with meat. Why do people assume that vegetarians eat nothing but vegetables? We eat LOTS of things. I find it very insulting that we are pigeon-holed in our food choices. Have a carrot!

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2014-2015 Winter Finch Forecast

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Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. For example, some species such as Purple Finch will go south while White-winged Crossbills will likely stay in the boreal forest in widely separated areas where spruces are laden with cones.

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The Value of a Life

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For example, why should an animal with years of life be sacrificed so someone can have a meal that may last 30 minutes and which gets flushed down the toilet shortly afterwards? I’m married to a meat eater and he can’t provide a better answer than “It just tastes good.” Their lives are as precious to them as ours are to any of us.