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Down Under drive to kill brumby wild horses brings bill to save them

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Man from Monaro stands in the bootprints of The Man From Snowy River             SYDNEY,  Australia––In a reversal of fortune as abrupt as a stallion wheeling on hind legs to strike at an aggressive rival,  the wild horses of Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales are suddenly slated for protected […]

Ban “nut meat”! cries animal agribusiness

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Animal ag biz strategists fear they can’t beat “clean meat” WASHINGTON D.C.––Killing the first edition of the 2018 Farm Bill on May 18,  2018,  the U.S. House of Representatives kicked many a highly politicized can down the street for later consideration,  including the first legislative attempt to determine what sort of can and labeling will […]

Aussie prof challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

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Contends “compassionate conservation” is most effective protection of biodiversity             SYDNEY,  Australia––The conservation establishments of both Australia and Israel might like to designate Arian D. Wallach an “invasive species” and slate her for extirpation. Indeed,  Wallach’s arguments could eventually put the entire global industry of exterminating “invasive species” out of business. Like any successful adaptive […]

Shoot wild horses, sell them to slaughter, or just let them die?

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Navajo Nation & BLM look at grim options  CAMERON,  ARIZONA––Why did 111 wild horses die stuck in the mud at a Navajo Nation stock pond near Cameron,  Arizona,  during the last week of April 2018? Photos distributed by Navajo Nation spokesperson Mihio Manus “showed clusters of horses with dried mud on their bodies, some overlapping one […]

The poop on live transport, whaling, & Ramadan 2018

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Old ships,  ancient customs             FREMANTLE,  Australia––Seventy thousand Australian sheep aboard the 38-year-old livestock carrier Al Messilah,  or anyhow those who survive the journey,  are due to reach Kuwait on May 14,  2018,  according to VesselFinder.com. The voyage continues a trade that Animals Australia likens to whaling in terms of cruelty and obsolescence,  but which […]

Cutting animals’ throats in New York City––who does it, who pays for it?

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Customs change with waves of immigration             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Live markets and storefront slaughter are again controversial in New York City,  scene of countless protests against the live animal marketing and killing practices of ethnic communities,  this time through undercover video of purported halal or Islamic slaughter,  taken by two members of Brooklyn/Queens Animal […]

Two inches of rain means life or death to animals in Kenya

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Flash floods broke devastating drought, but not drought cycle menacing wildlife & livestock             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Just two inches of rain over two days,  about what Seattle gets on average in just two weeks, in mid-March 2018 triggered flash floods killing at least 15 Kenyans,  marooning six tented camps for wildlife tourists in the Maasai Mara […]

Study authors miss own findings about soaring cost of dog attacks

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26% jump in dog attacks as percentage of deaths caused by non-venomous animals.             STANFORD,  California––At least fourteen major news agencies worldwide and even the authors of a newly published study entitled “An Update on Fatalities Due to Venomous and Nonvenomous Animals in the United States (2008–2015)” appear to have overlooked data included in the study […]

A Perfect Day dawns for dairy cows, 7,000 years after domestication

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Brewing beer for 9,000 years, humans learn to brew milk without using cows or other mammals             BERKELEY,  California––Using fermentation to produce food and beverages apparently originated in China circa 9,000 years ago.  Keeping dairy cattle appears to have begun in Anatolia,  the eastern part of Turkey,  circa 7,000 years ago. The commercial dairy industry […]

These “Blazing Saddles” episodes were no comedy

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Padilla Ranch and San Luis Rey Downs disasters may have been only part of the Southern California fire toll on horses LOS ANGELES––Of the estimated 700,000 horses living in California,  nearly 60% live in the four-county Southern California region hit by early December wildfires,  the largest of which,  the Thomas fire raging in the wooded […]