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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

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If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold! The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. "The

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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Call the pest control company. A company representative will come to your door and tell you the poisons they use are “safe.” When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. How it raised its chicks? And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?

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Breed Specific Legislation

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According to information gathered by Best Friends Animal Society , the charity beneficiary of funds raised by ITo, “cities around the country are passing bills to round up and kill family pets, who simply look like the kind of dog who might attack someone.” The goal is to raise funds to stop the proliferation of BSL.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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At the same time the field is somewhat lacking in people unconcerned with habitat or wild animals, but if Linda says that they do more damage to permafrost than oil companies dumping 94 thousand gallons of oil laced water on the environment, who am I to argue? How it raised its chicks? Enter the Villain of the Piece (Dramatic Music).

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On "The Age of Stupid"

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I liked the way the film connects oil use to an oil company. There was no meaningful discussion about our inefficient use of resources (grain and water) in the feeding of animals to kill to feed people. It's about the people and the land. A young woman in Nigeria (can you say Shell Oil?) But they dismiss food.

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