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But the actual danger to any vegetable-eating European, even in Hamburg or other places where the cases have been concentrated, is low.
David Ropeik: E.coli, and Fear of E.coli -- Both Are Dangerous David Ropeik 2011
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But the actual danger to any vegetable-eating European, even in Hamburg or other places where the cases have been concentrated, is low.
David Ropeik: E.coli, and Fear of E.coli -- Both Are Dangerous David Ropeik 2011
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For every vegetable-eating insect, native and foreign, we seem to have crops, trees and plant food galore; and their ravages rob the market-basket and the dinner-pail.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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The cæcum is extremely long in some of the lower vegetable-eating animals, and the vermiform appendix seems to be a rudiment of the formerly extended portion of this organ.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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They are dark-colored, brown or black, with metallic hues, and are seen in spring and throughout the summer, running in grass, or lurking under stones and sticks in damp places, whence they sally forth to hunt by night, when many vegetable-eating insects are most active.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Governor-General of India, imposed on salt, thus cutting off its use from millions of the vegetable-eating races of the East: just as that disease whose spectral shadow lies always upon America's threshold, originated in the avarice and cruelty of the slave-trade, translating the African coast fever to the congenial climate of the West Indies and
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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A British company has proposed releasing a GM strain of the diamondback moth, which it has developed, which would reduce the population of the vegetable-eating insects.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Zoo officials have embarked on a new project to cart dung from elephants and other vegetable-eating animals to a corner of the zoo's service yard.
Home 2010
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Zoo officials have embarked on a new project to cart dung from elephants and other vegetable-eating animals to a corner of the zoo's service yard.
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Zoo officials have embarked on a new project to cart dung from elephants and other vegetable-eating animals to a corner of the zoo's service yard.
Home 2010
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