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Chinese Milk Sickens Animals Too

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The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.

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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

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Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. New York City. Austria.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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Our hope is that these talented participants will help pave the way for a more ethical fashion industry in the future.” BFUSA’s Primate Sanctuary in Texas is home to more than 500 primates rescued from laboratories, roadside zoos, and private possession. based Born Free Foundation.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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The Wild and Crazy Emu

10,000 Birds

There was a smaller open field on one side and an industrial building of some sort on the other, and a four foot fence in front of me. I decided it would be an excellent photo opportunity so I pulled off the main road, onto a side street and turned into a cul de sac. References: 1 Emu. Birds Australian birds Emu'

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