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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with slaughter

U.S. District Judge Sets Monday Hearing for Idaho Wolf Hunt Challenge
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, law, politics, business, boycott, idaho, potatoes, wolf, wolves, endangered, slaughter, sadness, suffering, hunters, extinction, environment, animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, killing, law, wildanimals, wildlife, death, protection )

Tom
- 87 days ago - idahostatesman.com
The hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31, the day before Idaho wolf hunting is to start. Attorneys for Earthjustice, the group representing the 13 groups challenging the hunt and the federal government, will get three hours to make their cases in court.
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Sign Petition: Stop Nigerian Military Attacks in the Niger Delta!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: world, violence, nigeria, repression, military, attacks, niger, delta, civilian, slaughter, oil, narcotics, politics, government, taxes )

Tom
- 165 days ago - change.org
Nigeria will receive approximately $4.5 million in military training, hardware sales, and counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics education in 2010. It's intolerable that U.S. taxpayers must subsidize a repressive government's slaughter of its civilians.
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Take Action: Anti Horse Slaughter Bills S11 and HR503...
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, americans, congress, animals, horses, slaughter, food, horsemeat, cruelty, suffering, death, pets, sadness, humans, animalwelfare )

Tom
- 217 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The passage of S 311 and HR 503 will prohibit horse slaughter for human consumption in the US and stop the transport of horses across our borders under cruel and abusive conditions to Mexico to be butchered alive and suffer the worst death imaginable.
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Sign Petition: Support The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503)
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, americans, congress, animals, horses, slaughter, food, horsemeat, cruelty, suffering, death, pets, sadness, humans, animalwelfare )

Tom
- 225 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The US Congress' failure to pass legislation banning horse slaughter means American horses are being slaughtered for human consumption abroad. Tens of thousands are shipped to Mexico and Canada annually, where they are killed under barbaric conditions.
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Horse Slaughter Continues to Split Montanans
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: animals, horses, slaughter, cruelty, suffering, death, pets, sadness, government, montana, politics, money, jobs, business )

Tom
- 239 days ago - missoulian.com
Will Montana be the only state in the nation to have a horse slaughter plant? The answer now depends on Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who will determine the outcome of this contentious issue during the next few days. Will he sign House Bill 418 and allow it?
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Government Bans `Downer' Cows From Food Supply
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, goodnews, corruption, abuse, cruelty, death, AnimalCruelty, slaughter, investigation, obama )

Echo
- 255 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The Agriculture Department proposed the ban last year after the biggest beef recall in U.S. history. The recall involved a Chino, Calif., slaughterhouse and "downer" cows. The Obama administration finalized the ban on Saturday.
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Sign Petition: Mr. Obama - The GENOCIDE in Darfur...Please End It!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: world, janjaweed, genocide, slaughter, racism, violence, war, terrorism, death, conflict, crime, politics, government, obama )

Tom
- 265 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Darfur conflict has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis with 400,000 dead and 2.5 million displaced while the UN does nothing. Tell President Obama that the genocide of the black indigenous people by the brutal Arab Janjaweed must stop now!
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Texas May Let Hunters Shoot Pigs From Helicopters - USATODAY.Com
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, habitat, slaughter, wildanimals, politics, government, Texas )

Nina
- 278 days ago - usatoday.com
Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas.
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No Wolf Whistles for Sarah Palin's Compassion
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, animalwelfare, cruelty, death, endangered, environment, ethics, extinction, habitat, humans, killing, protection, sadness, slaughter, society, suffering, wildanimals, abuse, americans, bu )

Wolfweeps
- 379 days ago - pacificviews.org
Defibrillator usage increased last week after John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate and only a heartbeat from control of the nation's nuclear arsenal. But, shortly after most Republicans were shocked back to life they
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End the Chemical War Against Wildlife.
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: animals, destruction, endangered, environment, habitatdestruction, politics, wildlife, AnimalCruelty, killed, killing, law, slaughter, wildanimals, government )

Tara
- 635 days ago - aldf.org
Contact your U.S. representative and ask him/her to co-sponsor the Compound 1080 and M-44 Elimination Act, H.R. 4775. 20 representatives are needed. Compound 1080, a toxic poison, was outlawed in 1972 but was legalized by the EPA in the mid-80's.
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Defenders of Wildlife: Support the PAW Act
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: wolf, wolves, defenders of wildlife, extermination, endangered, government, politics, cruelty, animals, animalsuffering, animal, extinction, habitat, protection, wildanimals, slaughter, abuse, habitatdestruction, habitat, conservation, americans, government, Gov )


- 775 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Rep George Miller has introduced the PAW Act: Protect America's Wildlife. If passed it may curb Alaska's extinction of wolves, specifically aerial hunting. It may keep similar policy from coming to Yellowstone. Please inform your reps you support PAW.
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Follow- Up on Man Ripping Off (Tame) Duck's Head-Duck Killer Was U.S. Auditor on Government Job
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, activists, animal, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalsuffering, crime, cruelty, death, killed, killing, law, neglect, pets, sadness, scum, suffering, slaughter, wildlife, abuse, government, ethics, corruption, crime, dishonesty, media )

Echo
- 790 days ago - rockymountainnews.com
The man accused of decapitating a tame duck at a Twin Cities hotel is a Denver federal health agency auditor on a government trip, an agency spokesman confirmed today. HE'S ON PAID LEAVE!!!! WE MUST ACT ON THIS ASAP!!
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Shut Down Horse Slaughter Plants for Good
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: restore protections, wild horses, commercial sale, slaughter, Capitol switchboard, YOUR representitive, VOTE YES on H.R. 249 )

Eleanora
- 945 days ago - community.hsus.org
This week will be a make-or-break time in Congress for horses.Starting on Tuesday morning, April 24, we need everyone who cares about ending horse slaughter to call Congress as part of our National Call-In Day.TAKE ACTION.Go to site for phone #s.e-m ails
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Animal Slaughter - Your Tax Dollars at Work !!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: wildlife, slaughter, tax $$, US government )

DC
- 978 days ago - peer.org
Even as some federal agencies spend millions to protect wildlife, another federal agency spends millions more to kill wildlife in record numbers. The federal government destroyed 2.7 million wildlife in 2004 - one animal every 12 seconds -
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