In 2007 alone, 3.7 million Australian sheep were sent to the Middle East for slaughter. These animals endured a long and grueling journey by both road and sea. More than 35,000 of them died during the sea voyage from heat exhaustion, infection, injury, an
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]]> There are no laws against animal cruelty in China. The only prohibition is against killing endangered species. Torture is not even an issue. The following articles will give you an idea of the kind of disregard the Chinese authorities have for animal
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]]> The European Commission will ask its member states to ban the importation of furs made from the skins of young seals hunted in Canada, the European Environment Commissioner said Thursday.
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]]> The "shortfall" in ivory described in the document between 1991 and 2002 -- equal to the tusks from about 11,000 dead elephants -- could provide fodder for representatives of a U.N. accord to reject China's attempt next week to gain permission to import
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]]> Do note they don't dare mention the skinning of our cats and dogs:( They even call other media terrorists.
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]]> Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics
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]]> We have had a number of comments on seal hunting that have been posted under other blog entries. The Commission is preparing a legislative proposal on this issue and it is a subject that Commissioner Dimas will be returning to in a future blog.
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]]> Common in cities across China, these roadside restaurants specialise in dishes made of almost every conceivable part of dogs including heads, legs, testicles and innards. The animals destined to be killed for the table are often kept on display outside...
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]]> "The Humane Society of the United States brought to our attention its issues about the fur industry. They did so in a thoughtful, measured way. We listened, and decided that they are right. So we are going fur-free."

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]]> The spirit of America has long been symbolized by the wild horses that gallop across its plains, so much so that the federal government enacted legislation to protect them back in the '70s. But now, the very agency charged with protecting wild horses is
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]]> Unprecedented incident of abuse and killing an animal, have in mind antidimarchou Chania, Evangelos Samata members AR organisations in the prefecture and asked for measures to tackle the problem of abuse and mass poisoning of feral animals.
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]]> Foreword:
Incredibly, we find ourselves once again accused of illegally transporting stray dogs from Greece to other EU countries, this time by the Ministry of Agriculture itself. Initially, the shock at reading the press release below (translated into
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]]> There are no laws against animal cruelty in China.Torture is not even an issue. Cats and dogs in China are routinely bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death and strangled with wire nooses so that their skins can be turned into leather and fur.
Speak Out NOW!!
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]]> Namibia now remains the only country on earth to round up nursing baby seals still suckling on their mother's milk, driving them in-land away , and as they attempt to flee alongside their mothers back to its safety clubbed and stabbed to death.
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]]> Although innocent seals are blamed for fisheries and and marine abundance collapse we all know its the criminal habitat destruction done by those that profit from the public trust in Ottawa that are really to blame.
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]]> In italy people have a very nice description for doing nothing!
they called the lifestyle Dolce far niente! Sweetness of doing nothing!
pleasant idleness or inactivity...

Depending on your preferences, you can choose between the "Faulenzerwoche" (
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]]> Korean animal protection groups seek help:
We would like to ask for your help to support the Korean groups, CARE and KAAP, with their campaign to stop dogs from being listed as livestock by the government
How you can help:
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]]> PETITION: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/shut-down-huntingdon-life-sciences
Activists visit the Staples store located at 2248 Broadway in New York City to protest Staples' involvement with the puppy killing animal abusers at Huntingdon Life Sciences.
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]]> The Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming, officials said Wednesday.

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]]> The Derby incident has prompted outrage, debate and questions about why thoroughbreds seem to be breaking down more frequently -- doping, training, breeding and gender are the prime suspects -- and whether anything can be done about it.
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]]> Two bison bulls that breached the fence surrounding Theodore Roosevelt National Park in southwestern North Dakota were shot and killed by a Billings County rancher. Park chief ranger Tom Cox declined to name the shooter, who hasn't been charged in the
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]]> Patient 08-0719, also known as Larry the Loon, rested on a bed of blankets in the corner of a box on Tuesday at the Wildlife Center of Virginia. The bird's dark eyes were calm and curious, its neck curved gracefully, covered in feathers the colors of
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]]> Surrounded by dozens of pugs, Pomeranians, cocker spaniels, shelties and mutts on the state Capitol steps, state legislators and agriculture officials today hailed a package of bills that would update Pennsylvania's antiquated animal protection laws.
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]]> Breeding endangered cheetahs in captivity has been fraught with difficulties, not least the high death rates suffered from an illness with nasty similarities to mad cow disease. Now a team led by pathobiologist Keiichi Higuchi of Shinshu University
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]]> Most people do not realize that we are in the midst of a mass extinction that is affecting every living thing on this planet. We are losing up to a dozen species of plant and animal every day. This rate is far faster than when the dinosaurs died out 65
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]]> Some 60 giant pandas at a Chengdu research centre near the worst hit part of the massive China earthquake are safe, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
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]]> Friday afternoon four cats belonging to the Charles Ruggiero family of Watertown were lounging on the back porch of their Keyes Avenue home when two dogs, pit bulls, appeared. Moments later the weakest of the four felines suffered a horrendous death,
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]]> Our world is overpopulated by cows!!! and the world could be so much better if they weren't not that numerous... Read all the reasons why. It's very interesting...

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]]> In the classic Hollywood western, a cowboy portrayed by John Wayne gallops across the sagebrush steppe and rocky ridges of the American West with only his horse for a companion. What the films don't show is the cowboy buying and hauling hay for his horse
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]]> Wyoming should manage wolves as a valuable wildlife resource. Instead, in almost 90 percent of the state, anyone who hates wolves can shoot the animals on sight, for no other reason than the fact that they hate them.

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]]> Making the switch to a vegan diet has never been easier! As vegans, we can still enjoy the same flavors and types of foods as we've grown accustomed to eating, only without animal ingredients.
Vegan Substitutes for Meat and Dairy
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]]> A target says where a petition will be sent to, once it has enough signs.That could be an organisation,an embassy,a government,a mayor etc
It is defenitely useless signing petitions without proper tar
Do not sign them!!!!And do not send them to others
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]]> There were another 25 horses on this overcrowded lorry that were dehydrated, exhausted and frightened. Their journey would last at least another two days. VIDEO: http://www.ilph.org/makeanoise/index.html
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]]> Two east Metro women were indicted Monday in connection with smuggling protected wildlife into the state. Pa Lor of Oakdale and 36-year-old Tia Yang of Lake Elmo were each charged Monday with one count of conspiracy to smuggle wildlife and one count of
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]]> A “Do Not Disturb” sign might be going up on more than 500 acres that the Cincinnati Zoo owns in Warren County. Hush: small, extremely rare cats getting down to business. That’s the idea zoo officials have been shopping to Warren County planners in the
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]]> Mark McCarthy, the owner of McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary, was bitten by his 3 year old tiger. Sabi, a 400 pound rare white Siberian tiger, bit McCarthy on the right calf. The incident happened on the set of a music video shoot taking place on Miami's
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]]> The first rocket ever sent to space probably carried bacteria or some other accidental passenger. But the first animals ever intentionally sent into space were fruit flies launched aboard a V2 rocket in 1947. US scientists were studying the effects of
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]]> Roadrunners, pelicans and now mini-horses. Grey County OPP had to deal with several reports of mini-horses in the area late last week. The first report was Thursday at about noon from a motorist, who called to say he had seen the animals running along
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]]> Cat-poo coffee is SO over. The latest coffee involving animals is monkey-chewed coffee. And the biggest difference between the two is that monkey-enhanced coffee is really, really good. The head judge of the world barista championships gave it a score
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]]> Farm Sanctuary's campaign to educate others about the cruelty of veal production.
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]]> I love camera traps. You know, the ones where a camera hidden deep in a forest or jungle is equipped with motion sensors so that it'll snap whenever an unsuspecting animal walks past. There's something intimate about the images they produce;
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]]> A martial arts teacher knocked over by a lion during a photo shoot at Bowmanville Zoo says she is happy to have come away with four broken ribs and a bloodied lung. "To be honest, the sensation I have is a great deal of gratitude to be alive,"
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]]> Gemperle Farms accused an animal rights group of staging an undercover video that shows employees abusing hens, claiming that the footage was manipulated and workers were coerced. "We have reviewed the video images claiming to represent our
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]]> Borough council announced last week it had entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to harvest 75 deer. The killed animals will be sent to food processors and their meat will be donated to local food banks.
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]]> Lezlie Morrow is a self-appointed "loose dog ambassador." She keeps a safety vest in her car, along with water and dog treats. When she sees a dog running free — down the middle of a street, for example — she tries to coax it to come with her, and
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]]> Years ago, few people would have been remembered with an obituary that included a pet among their survivors. But times have changed. Not only are pets being listed as survivors when their owners die, many are remembered with their own obituaries when
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]]> Police in Vietnam have seized more than a ton of live wild monitor lizards being smuggled from central Vietnam to the country's northern provinces, where they might have been destined for China, officials said Tuesday. The lizards were found Sunday packed
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