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Is That Kosher? Animal Rights Activists Dump Animal Heads In Tel Aviv Fountains

GLZ.CO.IL , YNET (Israel)

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TEL AVIV – Ten animal-rights activists have been arrested in connection with a bizarre form of shock protest in the name of protecting animals from slaughter: dumping bloodied heads of dead animals into city fountains, according to glz.co.il.

Over the last few months, slaughtered cow, goat, fish and sheep heads were thrown into many fountains in central Tel Aviv, with the water often transformed in a deep red color. On Wednesday, the two women and eight men, members of the “Free 269” movement, were arrested by a special unit investigating the series of vandalism.

The first incident earlier this year was a goat head left in the best-known fountain in central Tel Aviv, with the Free269 movement taking responsibility for the act with a message on its Facebook page: “In every given moment, in Israel and in the world, billions of animals are tortured and killed, all of them were subjects who just wanted to live in peace and serenity,” Ynet reports.

Amongst the charges the arrested suspects face: mistreatment and illegal killing of animals.

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Lithium Mines In Europe? A New World Of Supply-Chain Sovereignty

The European Union has a new plan that challenges the long-established dogmas of globalization, with its just-in-time supply chains and outsourcing the "dirty" work to the developing world.

Photo of an open cast mine in Kalgoorlie, Australia.

Open cast mine in Kalgoorlie, Australia.

Pierre Haski

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PARIS — It is one of the great paradoxes of our time: in order to overcome some of our dependencies and vulnerabilities — revealed in crises like COVID and the war in Ukraine — we risk falling into other dependencies that are no less toxic. The ecological transition, the digitalization of our economy, or increased defense needs, all pose risks to our supply of strategic minerals.

The European Commission published a plan this week to escape this fate by setting realistic objectives within a relatively short time frame, by the end of this decade.

This plan goes against the dogmas of globalization of the past 30 or 40 years, which relied on just-in-time supply chains from one end of the planet to the other — and, if we're being honest, outsourced the least "clean" tasks, such as mining or refining minerals, to countries in the developing world.

But the pendulum is now swinging in the other direction, if possible under better environmental and social conditions. Will Europe be able to achieve these objectives while remaining within the bounds of both the ecological and digital transitions? That is the challenge.

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