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On Egypt's Pig Cull

Animal Person

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."

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Put ‘pest’ animal species on the pill, don’t cull them

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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

However, the engineers had to do their engineering so ever since the 70’s the water levels have been controlled up or down and large grazing animals have been released. The grazers are glorified farm animals, but they have been labelled by some very irresponsible people as “wild”. It was awful. They still die, but in a nicer way.

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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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As usual when species are well-examined, the number of subspecies seems to multiply, though apparently some of these subspecies have recently been culled in order to simplify the life of birders. While birds have developed one way of dealing with gravity, flying, other animals have found different ways, for example, just ignoring it.

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

Critter News

Better to cull them than subject them to years of pain and loneliness in a lab. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. They are considered an environmental pest because they are a non-native species that inflict ecological damage.but to deal with them this way is just unacceptable.

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France pledges to end chick culling in 2022

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submitted by /u/Nohan07 [link] [comments].

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Animal Health Care is Part of the Bottom Line

Critter News

We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. Here's an example.