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Tests Involving the Burial of LIVE PIGS Are Halted

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An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Some animals were being buried completely and suffocated, while others were covered up to their necks to freeze to death. "It

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Novartis CEO Has Lodge Burned Down by Animal Rights Activists

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If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. We will attack your private life wherever possible. Have you got any more hobbies Daniel? We will destroy them.

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Brouwerij Verhaeghe: Duchesse de Bourgogne

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Early in 1482, Mary of Burgundy, sovereign regnant of the Duchy of Burgundy and consort of Archduke Maximilian I of Austria, embarked on a falconry hunt with her husband and several knights. The horse landed on the young duchess, breaking her back but not killing her outright.

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