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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

Critter News

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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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

10,000 Birds

They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark. Nowadays, the Savannah Elephants are shorter and with smaller tusks, often without them. Sniffing us.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny.

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Masked Lapwings breeding at Derby airport

10,000 Birds

On a recent day trip to Derby from Broome we took the road into the Derby airport to get views of the end of the mudflats and encountered a Masked Lapwing sitting on eggs and chicks right beside the main road at the airport. It should be noted that this is not a busy airport! Masked Lapwing protecting a nest.

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On Nonhuman Animals and Human Babies

Animal Person

I chose a cow for Sky's first stuffed animal, and I hope that she will grow up to honor and respect the lives of cows the same way she will honor and respect the lives of greyhounds. Emily has taken to sleeping right next to wherever Sky is. Instead, they simply raise their children with the values of the dominant culture.

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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

Let's deconstruct: The heading is: "Okay, so your steak comes from a cow that lived a happy life--but how did that life end?" It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life. The featured slaughterer is Bev Eggleston of EcoFriendly Foods, who says, “My perspective of what is humane is broader than how you harvest a cow.

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Shadows of Africa

10,000 Birds

They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark. Nowadays, the Savannah Elephants are shorter and with smaller tusks, often without them. Sniffing us.

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