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Thai Police Rescue Monkeys Bound for Restaurant

Critter News

Thai Highway Police in Sa Kaeo province have rescued 24 baby crab-eating monkeys, arresting a Thai driver and five undocumented Cambodians attempting to smuggle the endangered species to Cambodia, where they were destined for cooking pots in.Chinese specialty restaurants in Cambodia.

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Disaster in the Sundarbans

10,000 Birds

Using cooking pots, the fishermen collected stained plant matter. “Local children and youngsters begun removing the already spilled oil using kitchen utensils like bowls, plates, and other cooking pots,” Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, a professor at Dhaka University, told mongabay.com. Photo (c) by Arati Kumar-Rao.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa.