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Animal Concerns News Service
The Animal Concerns News Service, a service of the EnviroLink Network, compiles the most relevant news stories of interest to the global animal rights/welfare community from sources around the Internet.
Video footage secretly recorded by a Mercy For Animals undercover investigator at Hudson Valley Foie Gras -- the country's largest foie gras producer -- has uncovered the systematic torture of animals. Workers were caught on hidden camera violently grabbing ducks by their wings and necks and shoving metal pipes down their throats in order to force-feed them. This painful force-feeding makes the birds' livers swell up to ten times the normal size and the diseased, fatty livers are then sold as "foie gras" on Amazon.com.
To grow human organs, cells would be injected into an animal embryo that has been genetically modified to ensure it does not have certain organs. This creates an "animal-human chimeric embryo," which is believed would result in the birth of an animal with a human organ.
Like Nageshwaran, there are many who are turning to veganism - a practice that is very common in the western world - and is now catching up in India albeit with those who need a healthy diet after suffering from a lifestyle disease or as a precautionary measure.
A Queens dog owner killed an alley cat — and now faces up to two years behind bars.
Sadly, there are people who commit certain acts in this world of ours that are utterly reprehensible. Animal abusers are pretty high up on that list. They take advantage of creatures that have no voice and no recourse.
Over 30 wild animals of highly endangered species such as the slow loris, marmoset, Indian star tortoise and ball python, prohibited for being kept as pets, have been seized from a flat in Singapore during a raid, authorities said.
A SYDNEY photographer abused and threatened with death for taking pictures of female hunters from the Dubbo region is scheduled to speak at Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) on Friday evening.
Until now bestiality was only illegal if cruelty to the animal could be proven and it had been subjected to suffering.
A Navarre man who shot and killed a dog, tied it to the back of his vehicle and dragged it down a road in December was given a year’s probation Monday.
Congress this week will consider an amendment to the federal farm bill that would negate several important food-safety and animal-rights laws passed in recent years by California voters.
