http://supervegan.com/blog/entry.php?id=1455
3/26/10
Wild Animals Banned from Traveling Circuses (UK)
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/26/wild-animals-banned-traveling-circuses/
It specifies "traveling" circuses, though, so more permanent exhibits won't be affected.
3/25/10
The Femivore's Dilemma
An article on women returning to the earth in their own backyards.
Interesting, this "new" idea of family self-sufficiency through what, one hundred years ago, was simply homemaking, something every woman was expected to be able to do. But why does it have to be a gendered undertaking? And is this just a new way for working-class, stay-at-home mothers to categorize themselves?
3/21/10
Santa Monica Restaurant Closes After Serving Whale Meat
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/03/20/13303406-ap.html
Lots more info here:
http://www.tonic.com/article/dedicated-animal-activists-prompt-a-santa-monica-restaurant-to-close-for-serving-illegal-whale-meat/
3/19/10
Animal Abuse as Clue to Additional Cruelties
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/us/18animal.html?emc=eta1
Responding to growing evidence that people who abuse animals often go on to attack humans, states are increasing the penalties for animal cruelty and developing better methods for tracking convicted offenders.
Responding to growing evidence that people who abuse animals often go on to attack humans, states are increasing the penalties for animal cruelty and developing better methods for tracking convicted offenders.
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