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Marine Life Top of CITES Meeting Agenda

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On its agenda is Monaco's proposal to have a complete ban on the international commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna. Tags: australia CITES marine life marine animals Japan. Australia and Japan are among the countries refusing to back a total ban.

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Canada to Push Seal Hunt Agenda at G-7

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Tags: canada seal hunters Stupid seals. Canada needs to stop exploiting its natural resources and move into a more sophisticated type of economy. You'd think they were a developing nation with nothing else to offer.

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The Conflict Between Animal Welfare and Agribusiness

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This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. Tags: corporate lies humane society agriculture agribusiness. Compassion is perceived to hurt profits. It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison.

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Polar Bear Hunters Face Battle Over Extinction Worries

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A limit on the hunting of polar bears by sportsmen and native Arctic people will top the agenda at an international summit in Norway tomorrow, seen as vital to the survival of the predator. Tags: polar bear. In Norway, stalking is banned.

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Any other factories on the agenda? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Would I ever say I restrict my diet to food that wasn't made from the parts of creatures as sentient as the greyhounds I share my home with? I don't think of that as a restriction. Removing skin and bones from a chicken breast was "slimy and gushy and.

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo, Part Deux

Animal Person

Coincidentally, last night was a board meeting for our homeowner's association, and though I wasn't on the agenda there's always time for homeowner comments about, say, the petting zoo and pony rides that are scheduled for the spring "BBQ" ( here 's part one of this story). They should never play poker.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

Film is a visual medium and through direction, dialogue, editing, music and any effects, the filmmaker presents (in this case) his agenda. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film Language. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing.

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