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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. I couldn’t care less for the African dove” Under such pressure, on July 23 the Ministry of Agriculture has postponed the beginning of the hunting ban to October, after the closure of the dove hunting season.

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Autumn 2011 Report From Cyprus

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“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011. The report highlights four important issues.” ” See the whole report here.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb

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that slaughters horses for human consumption. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. You can learn more about the harsh realities of horse slaughter here and here.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat. Their population apparently received a big boost in the 1970s when c**k-fighting was declared illegal and many fighting c s were released. This post will get a bit into that for which I apologize, but it seems someone needs to do this. Americans love chicken.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

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You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. You're hypocrites essentially, and the worst kind in my opinion. Loud preaching hypocrites utterly convinced of their infallability.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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But every photo is clearly here for a reason, whether to show juvenile plumage or large egg clutches or illegal trapping (many of the images in the Challenges and Conservation chapter are from CABS, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter).