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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing.

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couple pictures of 3 cats I met while on vacation in Belgium

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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After three visits to southern Italy, followed by a lone excursion to Belgium, we’ll head back south to end our month-long “Grand Tour” of falconry-themed wine and ales in Portugal. A more recent example of the long and beneficial relationship between falconry and winemaking.

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Belgian Bill Calls for Pig Castration WITH Anesthesia

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Tags: europe pigs castration farm animal welfare belgium agribusiness.

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

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Following this early example, weathervanes in classical antiquity often assumed the form of animals and mythological beings – often deifications of the four compass winds – traditions that carried on in Europe long past the fall of Rome.

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Belgian City of Ghent Goes Vegetarian!

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According to this BBC story, city officials in Ghent, Belgium, are encouraging all residents to go vegetarian one day a week. Note from KBJ: I'm sure Mylan will agree with me that it would be better, morally, if the vegetarian diet were being adopted for the sake of the animals. Thursday has been officially designated "Veggie Day."

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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Department of Agriculture’s Animal Damage Control unit tried to remove them, sparking a fight with Mayor Washington’s neighbors, who also loved the parakeets, and the establishment of the Harold Washington Memorial Parrot Defense Fund. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. After he died in 1987, the U.S.

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