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Investigation Reveals Cruel Treatment of Pigs in Europe

Critter News

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

10,000 Birds

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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