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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation

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Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) If you complied with the law, you wouldn't look like such jerks!

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Animals milked dry before illegal slaughter, investigation shows

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Animal Equality is revealing widespread cruelty and legal violations in slaughterhouses connected to India’s dairy industry. Between October and December 2023, investigators documented abuse at six facilities in Maharashtra and Kerala. In Deonar, several buffaloes attempted to… Source

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Red Grouse Restored: a Full Species Again

10,000 Birds

However, controlling predators is controversial, and has been further tainted by gamekeepers illegally shooting Hen Harriers, which are serious predators of grouse. 700 are directly involved with grouse moor management and a further 820 jobs in related services and industries.” That, you might note, is just England.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

10,000 Birds

The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. clouded yellow) butterfly and one Brambling greeted me.

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Why I write for 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week). I certainly don’t expect to be able to single-handedly start an ecotourism industry here.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

10,000 Birds

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. Once upon a time, the sky was blue and unpolluted, habitat plentiful, and natural food untainted.

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Animal Ethics

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. It will be said that animal husbandry is one of the most inefficient and destructive industries on the planet, and that the planet cannot survive unless humans change their diets.

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