May mean a million fewer pigs & cattle per year are raised for slaughter––plus multi-millions of poultry DEN HAAG––Dutch state secretary of economic affairs Sharon A.M. Dijksma on June 4, 2013 committed the Netherlands to trying to reverse European Union and other international policies which require culling livestock who have been exposed to contagious diseases […]
German zoo staff convicted of cruelty for killing hybrid tigers
MAGDEBURG, Germany––Magdeburg Zoo director Kai Parret and three members of the zoo staff were on June 17, 2010 convicted of cruelty for killing three tiger cubs at birth in May 2008 because their father was found to be a hybrid of the Siberian and Sumatran tiger subspecies. A fine of 8,100 euros was suspended on […]
Russia halts seal hunt
MOSCOW, OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11, 2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country, as in most developed countries,” Trutnyev told media. Trutnyev described the ban as […]
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