Here's the article Norm Famous was referring to yesterday concerning the remarkable reduction in numbers of a west coast blackbird: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2014/06/23/bye-bye-tricolored-blackbird/. Dying off because of grain grown to feed dairy cattle in California's central valley. We're such a lovable species; seen any monarch butterflies in recent years? You won't because grain farmers in the plains states are using GMO corn that doesn't die when sprayed with Roundup. But the milkweed does, and so the monarch's never make it this far north anymore. We're such a lovable species. (I said that.)
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