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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April 30, 2009
Agriculture
William C. Rhoden, writing for the New York Times posted a piece on April 30 about the devastating contribution the horse racing industry makes to horse slaughter. Although the last horse slaughterhouse in the United States closed in 2007, horses, including thoroughbreds, are routinely shipped across our borders to land in foreign slaughterhouses. The covenant [...]
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