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Knoxville Progressive
47, an environmental scientist, Italian-American, married, 2 sons, originally a Catholic from Philly, now a Taoist ecophilosopher in the South due to job transfer. Enjoy jazz, hockey, good food and hikes in the woods.
Or maybe a story that evokes images of circling vultures over a carcass reflects my mood today:
Wildlife experts are urging the Indian government, which has shown little action to date, to ban a widely used veterinary drug in order to save vultures from extinction. Numbers have plummeted in recent years because they are being poisoned by traces of the anti-inflammatory drug, diclofenac, in animal carcasses. A study published by the Public Library of Science says an alternative drug, meloxicam, is harmless to vultures (but costs twice as much). Protecting vultures could help prevent the spread of diseases such as rabies by wild dogs feeding on carcasses sitting rotting without vultures to remove them. Rabies is widespread in India.
The killings continue in Darfur:
Bayprairie at medialgirl provides an excellent summary of issues and news affecting Reproductive Rights for the week of Jan. 22-28
As if Iraq needs more misery.
New bird flu scare in north Iraq
From The Sydney Morning Herald:
Study reveals global toll of birth defects