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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

10,000 Birds

And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. No one is going to stuff it and put on a mantlepiece.

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Pheasant Stocking an Unfortunate Waste of Money

10,000 Birds

Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !

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On Surreal Lobster Advocacy

Animal Person

Yesterday I received an e-mail alert from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) regarding " a coin operated game that uses live lobsters at the Royal Palm Ale House in Royal Palm Beach. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane." What do you think of this campaign?

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). They live for up to 100 years.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

Emboldened by the averted gazes, the excuses by the adults in their lives, the legal bargains and wrist slaps, they set their sights on increasingly bigger game. If they are strong and wily enough, men. Why not, when they’re taught that they’re not responsible for their actions?

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PETA Goes After Canada's Seal Hunt

Critter News

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. I hate the seal slaughter. I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. You can go on and on about tradition, but just because something is old doesn't make it good.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Smoke, eat, and drink themselves to death?