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- Riding on a sheep's back - PETA versus Australian wool
  Posted by senselessthing from The Age
  In recent months, PETA's campaigning has induced dozens of retailers to boycott or phase out Australian wool in protest at the controversial practice of "mulesing", a grim operation which involves cutting away swathes of skin around the backsides of Merino sheep.
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- Sick cows abused at plant that supplies meat to schools
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Rawstory
  The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has released footage taken by an undercover investigator which reveals horrifying abuse of cows at a California slaughterhouse which reportedly supplies meat to American school lunch programs...
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- Geese's revenge: Foie gras may cause disease
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Geese force-fed and then slaughtered for their livers may get their final revenge on people who favor the delicacy known as foie gras: It may transmit a little-known disease known as amyloidosis, researchers reported on Monday.
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- N.Y. shark hunt attracts commerce, protesters
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The small group of protesters, backed for the first time by a large U.S. animal protection group, want to stop the shark-hunting tournament, one of the largest in the United States where the winner can take home more than $400,000 in prize money and from bets placed among fishermen.
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- Woodland Park Zoo elephant, dead at 6 - Animal Rights' Folks Had Campaigned for Her Release
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  "This is very sad Hansa has passed," French said this afternoon. "Hopefully this will serve as a wake-up call to Woodland Park Zoo and the [Seattle] City Council that there aren't the resources to care for these animals at Woodland Park Zoo." She suggests that Woodland Park and at Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma released its elephants to a sanctuary in Tennessee.
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- Wolfgang Puck: I Want Animals to Be Happy - before I slaughter them...
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Why shouldn't cows and pigs feel sunlight on their backs, grass under their feet? Fish shouldn't be jammed into tanks too full for them to even think about swimming. They should be able to exercise their muscles and feel a current. Yes, they'll be killed for food—but until then, they should have a nice stay on Earth.
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- PETA to Stop Referring to Animals as 'It'
  Posted by Jeff from Editor and Publisher
  The animal activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written a letter to Norm Goldstein, the editor of the AP stylebook, asking that the book be changed so that pronouns referring to animals always be "he," "she," and "who." AP responded by noting that the stylebook only uses "it" and "which" if the animal's sex has not been established and the animal's name is unknown.
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Geese's revenge: Foie gras may cause disease

Some strange kind of justice.

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8:37 am 6/19/07

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