10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !

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Slaughter Slaughtered Hunters Pennsylvania 162

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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.

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Cows Killing Seattle Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

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. Three companies refused to comply: Reckitt Benckiser, Liphatech, and Spectrum Group. What to do?

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Mr White was understandably angry and horrified that in the midst of all of this a British company seemed entirely happy to ship out fee paying customers to shoot Turtle Doves in a foreign country. Further research revealed two more companies in Britain and several others across Europe all engaged in the same shooting tourism.

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Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

At first the Zulu King Dingaan gained the upper hand by slaughtering a large contingent of Boers (including their leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz) but the infamous Battle of Blood River in 1838 lead to a division of the territory between what was later known as Natal to the south and Zululand to the north.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 192