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Take Me To Your Seeder
On feeding birds |
Umbra Fisk |
30 Jul 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dearest Umbra, Every winter I take pleasure in putting out birdseed to feed the backyard wildlife. I purchase the easily available, run-of-the-mill, found-at-my-local-hardware-store type of seed. My question is, in the big picture ... am I doing more harm than good? If the feed I am using is grown conventionally, am I doing a greater harm to the ecosystem as a whole? Or, on balance, is it better to provide free nosh to the locals? ... |
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| Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, industrial ag, wildlife (all these topics) |
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