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Read this in the New York Times. Of course if you are a vulture be assured that all the painkilling drugs in Tsunami's food are guaranteed to be non lethal. Enjoy the article.

Good News for Vultures

For more than a decade, three species of vultures on the Indian subcontinent have been dying in hordes, poisoned when they ate dead livestock that had been given the painkiller diclofenac.

To save these birds from imminent extinction, conservationists have called for a ban on the use of diclofenac. Last year, India agreed to ban the drug eventually. But one key to phasing it out has been finding an alternative that is effective on cattle but safe for vultures.

That alternative appears to have been found, according to a study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology. An international team of researchers led by Gerry Swan of the University of Pretoria in South Africa discovered that another cattle painkiller, meloxicam, is not harmful to vultures in the concentrations given to livestock. So now there is good reason to proceed with a ban on diclofenac.