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Penguin Returns To See His Rescuer Every Year

Meet the loyal penguin who travels 5,000 miles every year to visit the man who saved him from the brink of death. Retired bricklayer and part-time fisherman, 71-year-old Joao Pereira de Souza found the animal back in 2011 when he washed up on a beach, starving and covered in oil. Joao who named the penguin Dindim, after discovering him in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, decided to take the creature…

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Environment

Soybeans and the environment

It seems carnivores want to make us, vegetarians and vegans, out to be the environmental bad guys. As the Brazilian rainforest is being destroyed by illegal soybean plantations the finger is being pointed at us the biggest culprit. Except, of course, that according to Worldwatch Institute nearly 80 per cent of global soybean harvest is used to feed livestock.…

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