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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

Mendocino

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6. The living wind.

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Tue Nov 21, 2017, 03:49 PM

Nov 2017

My grandfather was born in 1887. His father lived in a time when passenger pigeons were common. There were an estimated 5 billion of them. It was said that a massive flock a mile wide and 310 miles long, took fourteen hours to pass. Old timers called the pigeons the living wind.

They went extinct about 1910. Hunting and habitat loss wiped them out.

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Trump to kill elephants [View all] Mendocino Nov 2017 OP

The lifting of the ban also includes lions. I do not know what, if, other animals are included. riversedge Nov 2017 #1

God MFM008 Nov 2017 #2

Let's hope he kills off the Republican Elephant! Chasstev365 Nov 2017 #3

No.. this is as low as it can get. defacto7 Nov 2017 #4

As a vegan I struggle with the front page news about elephants when billions of animals mucifer Nov 2017 #5

The living wind. Mendocino Nov 2017 #6