Killing Birds With Your Grocery List

By josh donlan on March 30, 2008.

Spring is in the air. And birds are starting to show up in America and elsewhere from their wintering grounds, gearing up to sing their little hearts out. Unfortunately, many of us are contributing to the decline of those birds by the food we choose to buy.

It is a complicated, globalized world these days. But, if you like those birds singing at your windowsill in spring, you may want to modify your grocery list.

In today's New York Times, Bridget Stutchbury wonderfully articulates the link between our food shopping habits and birds dropping dead left and right. And more importantly, what we can do to help prevent it.

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