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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation

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Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) If you complied with the law, you wouldn't look like such jerks!

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Each decade of the 20th century is then explored, taking a close look at the development of wild bird feeding as an industry and a hobby, grounding trends within larger world events. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. But I do know that the dairy industry and its lobbyists do not want to require labeling milk produced with rBST. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. Kershen Norman, Okla.,

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. In Europe the population size is estimated to be decreasing by 30-49% in 22.8 But, lacking the law enforcement in the field, nothing has really changed. Common Pochard by Graham Catley. years (three generations).

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