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Actually, Raising Beef Is Good for the Planet

By | Cattle

By Nicolette Hahn Niman Wall Street Journal People who advocate eating less beef often argue that producing it hurts the environment. Cattle, we are told, have an outsize ecological footprint: They guzzle water, trample plants and soils, and consume precious grains that should be nourishing hungry humans. Lately, critics have…

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El Dorado (1966)

By | Media

Watched the classic western “El Dorado” the other day.  Fantastic movie. From Wikipedia: El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by…

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