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Gang 'Killed Victims to Extract Their Fat'
Offbeat  (tags: crime, cosmetics, plastic surgery, consumption, Peru, homicide, legends, violence, human adipose tissue, fat, criminal gangs )

Rooibos
- 4 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment.
Poultry Project Ruffles Feathers - UPC Protests Chicken-Killing Project for K12 Students
Animals  (tags: United Poulty Concerns, chicken, bird, avian, animal welfare, cruelty to animals, traumatizing children, wrong priorities, stop eating birds, violence against animals )

Rooibos
- 9 days ago - mtexpress.com
A Virginia-based poultry protection group has condemned a Community School project in which chickens were raised and later slaughtered to teach eighth-graders about the realities of food production.
U.S. Residents Fight for the Right to Hang Laundry
Environment  (tags: home owners associations, image-conscious, energy waste, air-drying, green alternatives, climate change, coal energy, wasting electricity )

Rooibos
- 9 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.
FLORIDA: Piranhas Discovered In West Palm Beach Pond
Animals  (tags: fish, illegal release, abandoning animals, piranha, Florida, invasive species, human irresponsibility )

Rooibos
- 10 days ago - wpbf.com
State wildlife officials are treating a West Palm Beach pond where two piranhas were discovered last month.
Recovery.Gov's Bad Math: Puzzling Errors
Business  (tags: Obama administration, recovery stimulus, USA, jobless recovery, unemployment rate, spending on job creation, erroneous information )

Rooibos
- 10 days ago - cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com
Recovery.gov lists recovery spending on jobs. A closer inspection has revealed that information on the site to be inaccurate. Errors, mistakes, or other problems?
South Africa: Bull Killing Festival to Go on
Animals  (tags: South Africa, Zulu, violent fesitvals, bovine, bull, violence against animals, violent traditions, violent culture, denying animal rights pleas, lying, misguided male ceremonies )

Rooibos
- 10 days ago - iol.co.za
The Zulu royal house yesterday denied receiving letters from animal rights organisations, which have condemned the killing of the bull during the festival, which is scheduled to take place in the first week of December in Nongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal.
U.N. Forest Plan Could Threaten Species Scientists Fear
Environment  (tags: global warming, climate change, CO2 emissions, green house gases, human impact, human pollution, human overpopulation, human consumptiveness, extermination, endangered species, forests, trees, habitat loss, human impact, deforestation, timber trade )

Rooibos
- 10 days ago - planetark.org
The U.N. scheme, to be discussed at climate talks in Copenhagen next month, could save some species, while inadvertently endangering many others, according to the team of international researchers.
OCEANS: Jellyfish Swarm Northward in Warming World
Environment  (tags: jellyfish, jellyfish bloom, venonous jellyfish, global warming, greenhouse gases, climate change, warming oceans, human interference, human impact, human overfishing, imbalance in the natural world )

Rooibos
- 11 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating mass crowding out the catch of mackerel and sea bass.
Tuna Body Shies From Fishing Ban
Animals  (tags: extermination, overfishing, unsustainability, human greed, human selfishness, human overpopulation, lack of self-control, human stupidity, fishing ban needed, stop eating fish )

Rooibos
- 11 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The body responsible for managing Atlantic bluefin tuna has decided not to suspend the fishery in response to concerns over dwindling stocks. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) instead decided to lower the annual c
All About Image? Life on Severance: Comfort, Then Crisis
Society & Culture  (tags: USA, downsizing, lay offs, image conscious, conspicuous consumption, spending, cutting costs, joblessness, realization, change )

Rooibos
- 15 days ago - finance.yahoo.com
"There is an end date when that severance is going to run out," says Ellen Turf, chief executive of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. "At that point, the only life preserver is unemployment or getting another job....It's an awful si
 
 
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