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Agriculture

A Turkey-Friendly Thanksgiving

November 11, 2009 Agriculture

A few years ago, Hugh and I started our new Thanksgiving tradition of adopting a turkey from Farm Sanctuary. We can’t, of course, house a turkey in our one-bedroom flat without significant lifestyle changes. A pigeon rescue is about the most we’ve been able to handle in person. But Farm Sanctuary offers remote adoptions of [...]

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How Starlings Colonized the United States (and Other Stories)

June 6, 2009 Agriculture

William Shakespeare gets a bad rap for all of the Starlings. The story (or rumor) goes that some Victorian-era Shakespeare fans — misguided to be sure — hatched a plan to colonize, on U.S. soil, every bird species featured in Shakespeare’s plays. According to this Scientific American article a group known as the American Acclimatization [...]

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Compassion and Foodie Satisfaction

December 18, 2008 Agriculture

I have Colleen Patrick-Goudreau at Compassionate Cooks to thank for this post. Patrick-Goudreau is an Oakland-based vegan cook, author and speaker. I landed on her page while looking for some vegetarian counterpoints to the current offal-tinged culinary scene — and the food ethos sprung from the words of Michael Pollan. Pollan in his early writings [...]

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Our Adopted Turkey

December 4, 2008 Agriculture

I received the certificate below in the mail this week from Farm Sanctuary. It’s a tangible representation of “Faye,” our adopted Thanksgiving turkey. Farm Sanctuary offers a beautiful and alternative way to celebrate “turkey day” — by making a contribution toward the well-being of a rescued turkey on one of the sanctuary farms (New York [...]

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