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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

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If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold! The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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Seal Slaughter Stopped by Russia. Canada? Not So Much.

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Maybe Canada can learn something from the former KGB agent and avid hunter about compassion. Activists accused Norwegian companies of encouraging the killing because seal hunting was no longer allowed in their own country. Kudos for Russian leader Vladimir Putin for stopping the slaughter of seals.

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BOCA to Stop Using Eggs by End of 2009

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On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing: "…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. Totally missed this story from about a month ago. We anticipate all BOCA products will be egg free in 2010."

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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I asked two companies to help. The second responded as I would- with immediate concern and compassion. All these kids need is to be supported for a few more years and they are going to be birders for life. The first- who are supposed to be sponsors of what I do, sent me a doctored form letter.

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EPA Wants to Rely Less on Animal Testing

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It's not a move based on compassion, but efficiency. I'll take what I can get though, even if it's not an immediate eradication of a despicable practice. It expects the new approach will yield significant savings.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. It certainly doesn't fill me with confidence in these people's skills in compassion and humane care. It wasn't a full-fledged tour, but disturbing nonetheless. I can't really talk about what I do except that I work in government.

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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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