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ACTION NEEDED Outlaw the Sale of African Lion Meat
Health & Wellness  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, wildlife, protection, endangered, world, safety, prevention, treatment, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, conservation, endangered, extinction, killed, killing, sadness, suffering, slaughter, wildlife, environment, animals, cats, c )

Kelly
- 29 days ago - forcechange.com
Today, there is an estimated population of 18,000-20,000 lions in the world. The actual figure is probably much lower. Companies like Czimer's Game & Seafood hunt, kill, and sell wild animals, such as African lions, to the public.
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Take Action: Tell Washington to Make Laws That Protect Us From Harmful Chemicals, Not Laws That Protect the Companies That Make
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, congress, ethics, dishonesty, lies, usa, illness, health, children, cancer, babies, abuse, death, disease, environment, family, food, prevention, nutrition, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, treatment, warning, inves )

JL
- 23 days ago - action.ewg.org
A new bill has been introduced in Congress and it is unacceptable. It falls far short of the reforms that Americans need and have been told were in the works. Now is the time to demand real reform.
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Ban ECT for Children, Pregnant Women, the Eldery & Keep Ban on Psychosurgery TAKE ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, death, ethics, healthcare, protection, risks, warning )

Iona
- 14 days ago - change.org
Current law allows for children to be electroshocked in some cases even without parental consent. The brutal application of hundreds of volts of electricity to the head potentially causing brain damage, memory loss and sometimes death. Please help.
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ACTION NEEDED Amazon Cruelty: Ban Foie Gras!
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, healthcare, health, humans, illness, protection, prevention, safety, treatment, government, dishonesty, corruption, business, money, lies, abused, animalcruelty, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, cruelty, death, protection, sadness, suffering, kill )

Kelly
- 4 days ago - our-compass.org
In May 2013, a Mercy For Animals investigator documented a culture of cruelty at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York, a company that falsely bills itself as "the humane choice for purchasing foie gras.
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Our Psychiatric Civilization
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, babies, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, death, diet, drugs, environment, ethics, exercise, family, food, government, health, healthcare, humans, interesting, investigation, news, nutrition, risks, society, warning )

Kenneth
- 20 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
"Is the nation becoming one gigantic psychiatric support group?" So asks Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist for 40 years..
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Map the Meal Gap, Food Insecurity in Your County
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, death, diet, government, food, family, ethics, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention, protection, study, society, warning, safety, risks, investigation )

JL
- 7 days ago - feedingamerica.org
The report finds that food insecurity exists in virtually every county and Congressional district in the nation.
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Video:This Kid Just Died. What He Left Behind Is Wondtacular.
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, death, health, healthcare, ethics, humans, illness, medicine, investigation, prevention, protection, research, safety, risks, society, study, treatment, warning )

JL
- 23 days ago - upworthy.com
Zach Sobiech, at the age of 14, found out he had a rare form of terminal cancer. So he became a rock star, and millions of people got to see his music before he passed away on May 20, 2013. This is his beautiful story.
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Tackle Malnutrition Now
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, babies, children, death, diet, disease, ethics, family, food, government, healthcare, health, humans, medicine, investigation, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, society, study, treatment, warning )

JL
- 10 days ago - ipsnews.net
Malnutrition stunts people, economic growth, FAO official says Malnutrition threatens life, stunts growth and has a lasting impact on earnings...Malnutrition is the cause of death for more than 3 million children annually, according to a Lancet study.
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Hospitals Say "No" to Meat Raised With Antibiotics
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, death, disease, ethics, healthcare, food, health, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection, risks, safety, science, society, treatment, warning )

JL
- 10 days ago - civileats.com
Under the guidance of physicians and foodservice staff alike, UCSF's Academic Senate unanimously approved a resolution to phase out the procurement of meat raised with non-therapeutic antibiotics and urged all ten University of California campuses to do
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VICTORY UPDATE Johnsonville Now Agreeing That There Is No Future for Cruel Gestation Crates
Health & Wellness  (tags: VICTORY, gestation crates, NO LONGER USED, major pork producers, animalwelfare, GoodNews, animalcruelty, abused, killed, protection, suffering, sadness, slaughter, humans, endangered, conservation, animaladvocates, goodnews, rescued, cruelty, death, envir )

Kelly
- 19 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
After you and 73,044 people signed, we won! The company quietly posted on its website that it "will be working with (its) pork suppliers to transition from traditional gestation stall housing, to alternative pregnant sow housing." WE HELPED
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ACTION NEEDED Ask Chef Ramsay to Swear Off Foie Gras
Health & Wellness  (tags: Foie gras, 15 countries have banned it, including Australia, Germany, Israel, the U.K., money, lies, dishonesty, corruption, business, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, abused, animaladvocates, protection, killed, killing, suffering, sadness, cruelty, dea )

Kelly
- 18 days ago - secure.peta.org
At HVFG, some 15,000 ducks die every year before they can be slaughtered. Even though a manager claims that the ducks "don't get sick," 41 birds, on average, drop dead every day.
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Israelis Give a Double Punch to Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, death, disease, health, healthcare, investigation, prevention, research, safety, study, treatment, women, Israel )

G
- 21 days ago - israel21c.org
Breast cancer can be curable if it's caught soon enough - unless it is the "triple negative" type more likely to target young, black or Hispanic women. Israeli researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot are opening a new window of h
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