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Impact: Organic Revolution

Happy Cow? The Murky Science Of Measuring Bovine Happiness

HAMBURG — It’s good to have a clear conscience about breakfast, so when the yogurt container or milk bottle pictures happy animals, it’s reassuring. Consumers frequently imagine happy cows in lush pastures and roomy stalls where everything is good. But that’s only part of the truth. To meet organic and animal rights standards, farmers are […]

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Society

Pills, Acupuncture, Live Rabbits: When Zoo Animals Need Psychotherapy

SÃO PAULO — When Jorginho wakes up in the morning, he has a breakfast of fruits and yogurt to get his bowels moving. Then he takes an anxiolytic to ease the worries of a stressful day ahead in the big city. Around the corner is Bino, who has a weekly session of acupuncture on his […]

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Society

Warts And All: In Defense Of Frogs

Considered the ugliest of them all, frogs are far more helpful to the environment than cuddly kittens or charming princes. It’s time to start showing some serious amphibian amour!

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Society

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

GLZ.CO.IL , YNET (Israel) Worldcrunch 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 […]

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Society

New Zealand May Become First Country To OK Sale Of Psychoactive “Party Pills”

AAP (Australia); NZ HERALD, RADIO NEW ZEALAND, SCOOP (New Zealand) Worldcrunch WELLINGTON – Parliament on Tuesday approved a measure that would make New Zealand the first country to legalize synthetic drugs, otherwise known as party pills. If it gains final approval later this year, the Psychoactive Substances Bill would create a system to test and […]

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The Next Pope

Does The New Pope’s Name Choice Mean He’ll Fight For Animal Rights?

LA STAMPA (Italy) Worldcrunch VATICAN CITY– Pope Francis is his name, and Church watchers all seem to agree that this is a signal that a central them of the new papacy will be caring for the needy – needy humans, that is. But history also tells us that the inspiration for the Pope’s name, St. […]

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Society

Biggest, “Bloodiest” Protest Ever Against Bullfighting In Mexico (Photos)

EFE, ANIMANATURALIS (MEXICO) Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – Hundreds of animal rights activists in Mexico City took to the streets this weekend to call for an end to bullfighting in Mexico, reports EFE. More than 200 activists took their clothes off and poured fake blood on themselves during the demonstration. They planted fake “banderillas” on themselves, […]

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