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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. I say they were butchered, face-off. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species.

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

But the really telling language begins with the next sentence: "The situation has renewed the debate over whether reopening slaughterhouses in the United States — the last ones closed in 2007 — would help address the problem.". Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. Financially).