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	Catch and release

Red Pen

7-16-2008 4:32 PM

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food production, natural diets, pork, poultry, seafood, health, silly

Red Pen says:

This is truly messed up. I particularly like the quip about the wallet card. Would our barnyard pals have an eelskin wallet to put it in?

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