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Oscar Meyer leaving town after findings linking hot dogs to cancer

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Oscar Meyer leaves Madison after 96 years          MADISON,  Wisconsin––Just a week after the World Health Organization and International Agency for Cancer Research linked hot dog consumption to colorectal,  pancreatic,  and prostate cancers,  Oscar Meyer is leaving town. Oscar Meyer,  for 132 years among the biggest names in hot dogs,  known since 1936 for deploying […]

NASA finding means calcium chloride castration can be done on Mars

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Calcium chloride appears to exist,  but alcohol would have to be imported to fix Martian dogs & cats             SAN FRANCISCO,  California––Eight scientists who analyzed National Aeronautics & Space Administration data on September 28,  2015 announced in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Geoscience that they had discovered strong evidence of the presence of liquid water […]

Fallen crane & stampede take spotlight from haj animal victims

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At least 900,000 animals killed among 24 nations          RIYADH,  Saudi Arabia––After decades of global controversy over animal transport and slaughter in connection with Eid al Adha sacrificial rites,  the animal victims of the 2015 Islamic pilgrimage season went almost unnoticed amid furor over human victims. The start of the pilgrimage season,   called the haj […]

Livestock gases kill more than 16,000 Americans per year, says Planck Institute study

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“Meat is Murder” MUNCHEN,  Germany––Thirty years after the British rock band The Smiths’ third album popularized the phrase “Meat is Murder,”  Max Planck Institute for Chemistry researcher Jos Lelieveld has identified the alleged crime as a multiple homicide. In addition to killing about 1.7 billion cattle,  a billion pigs,  24 billion chickens,  and two billion […]

Foot-and-mouth disease spreads; Indian outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease may inhibit global vaccination effort

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Erratic performance from some Indian-made vaccines NEW DELHI––Erratic performance from some Indian-made vaccines may be undercutting foot-and-mouth disease eradication efforts throughout the developing world,  potentially threatening the lives of millions of cattle,  sheep,  pigs,  and other hooved animals. The alleged vaccine failures might also pose a significant threat to animals in Europe and North America. […]

Did botched pre-Ramadan sheep shipment start an epidemic?

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Georgian officials deny disease outbreak ever occurred TBILISI, Georgia––How many sheep were casualties of a botched pre-Ramadan live transport from the nation of Georgia to Saudi Arabia and Jordan in late May 2015? The authentic toll might never be known. Exported for ritual sacrifice, the sheep instead fell ill in transit, were refused at several ports, […]

Living the Farm Sanctuary Life

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by Gene Baur & Gene Stone Rodale Press & Raincoast Books (33 East Minor Street,  Emmaus,  PA 18098),  2015.  320 pages,  hardcover.  $29.99. Reviewed by Beth Clifton                   “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” ––VICTOR HUGO (French novelist)  Living the Farm Sanctuary Life […]

Whistleblower exposé of livestock research fuels ag-gag debate

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“Ag gag” laws are now on the books in seven states, but cases have been prosecuted only in Utah OMAHA, SALT LAKE CITY, KANSAS CITY, OLYMPIA––Publishing a landmark exposé of the little-known U.S. Meat Animal Research Center on January 20, 2015, Michael Moss of The New York Times indirectly racheted up political pressure both for […]