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Dead Pigeons

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Jun 12, 2014
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In a sport dominated by Taiwan’s gangsters, the island’s pigeon racers take young birds as far as 250 km out to sea and turn them loose to fly home. A huge number don’t make it. Each year, it’s believed that as many as a million birds drown, get lost or are netted by other gangsters.

That has set off the US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Anima…

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