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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?

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Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle. A new report in the Staug News of St. Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area.

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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. The primate, a 3-and-a-half-year-old pig-tailed macaque, “had been found dead due to malnutrition resulting in a loss of 25 percent of its body weight,” the report said. Tags: animal research University of Washington USDA.

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Week 26: San juan Islands

10,000 Birds

Such is the case when we got a call from our good friends Scott and Monica, inviting us to travel with them by sailboat up to the San Juan Islands, north of Seattle. We got on their boat, a 45 foot Gulfstar in Bellingham, Washington, and went straight to Sucia Island. This is also the location of the great Pig War of 1872.

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