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Senator Cory Booker + Representative Rosa DeLauro reintroduced identical bills into the House and Senate to protect slaughterhouse workers by reducing line speeds in the slaughterhouses, according to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Senator Booker originally introduced the bill in July 2020.
The Safe Line Speeds Act acts against a harmful action by the USDA in 2020 that allowed slaughterhouses to increase the speeds of slaughterhouses.
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According to the HSUS, the Safe Line Speeds in COVID–19 Act would:
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In a refreshingly heartwarming story earlier this month, the world’s oldest known wild bird has hatched yet another chick. Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is believed to be at least seventy years old, and is nesting in the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, a small island in the North Pacific. Wisdom is believed to have hatched the chick sometime in February, but the healthy young bird was only discovered and reported by researchers in early March.
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“Each year that Wisdom returns, we learn more about how long seabirds can live and raise chicks,” said Beth Flint, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s supervisory wildlife biologist at the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex, in an interview with NPR. “Her return not only inspires bird lovers everywhere, but helps us better understand ho
Chocolate and cherry . quite possibly the best combination on earth. This recipe may not include the alcohol-soaked cherries and Kirschwasser of a true Black Forest cake, but it s definitely not lacking in flavor.