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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Sounds just awful.

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Ezra Klein Discusses Meals Without Meat

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A lot of the meat-based meals in restaurants are due to chefs schooled in the French tradition. And, as one chef put it, cooks use meat to "express themselves." It's not about cooking "vegetarian," but cooking food you like that doesn't have meat. Well, I think this article makes some good points.

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Weird Meat Seized in Malaysia

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In Malaysia, 12 tonnes of exotic animal meat was seized from smugglers. It consisted of bear, iguana and owl meat. Any kind of meat is gross to me, but owl? Tags: exotic meats smuggling malaysia. don't know how I come across these weird stories. That's new to me!

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New Book on Ethics of Meat-Eating

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All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. Tags: meat. I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animal rights. What do I choose? One is a huge supporter of animal research. I don't want anything too radical and was thinking about Dominion by Matthew Scully.

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Meat Grown in a Petri Dish?

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Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. Why is that my husband won't eat bones with fat on them because they are "gross," but will eat burgers and processed meat? From an opinion piece in the Times of India. Da da da da!

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USDA Has Meat Animal Research Center

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Here it is.the US Meat Animal Research Center. Tags: meat USDA cattle. Good site to visit to see what they're up to. Obviously, all the pictures will probably be nice and clean.

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Is Cheap Meat Endangering Our Lives?

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Will our desire to mass-produce cheap meat end in a health disaster? How much harm will we do to ourselves in the name of cheap meat? But once you factor in the cost of all these diseases and pandemics, cheap meat suddenly looks like an illusion. Tags: meat Swine Flu factory farm agribusiness. From the Independent.

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