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Food for Thought: How to Treat Poachers

So here’s a question, how should poachers (those who kill endangered species for a living or extra income) be treated when found by authorities? Should they be thrown in prison? Fined? Scourged then sentenced to forced labor?...

by Conor Sullivan

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China’s Dog Meat Festival – Cruelty Or Culture?

In some parts of China, dog meat is considered a delicacy at the dinner table and the practice of consuming dog meat has been around since 500BC, or possibly even earlier. However, as more and more Chinese are raising dogs as...

by Global Voices

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Petri-Dish Patty: A Worrying or Brave Step in Future Meat Production?

Overpopulation has been a big problem for food production for a long time, and with a current world population of 7.2 billion, which is predicted to rise to 9.6 million by 2050, it seems that Armageddon could be caused by the ...

by Ozlem Unat

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Where does our food come from? Top 5 food documentaries

In developed countries, an abundance of cheap, delicious food means that the biggest question many of us face is how to choose what we’d like for dinner from so many available options. But do we know where our food really com...

by Brandon Engel

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Kittens’ Eyes Sewn Shut For Experiments

Scientists at Cardiff University have been sewing shut kittens’ eyelids to discover how the brain responds to sensory deprivation. In research that took place in 2010, but only recently came to light, more than 30 kittens and...

by Paula Munteanu

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WATCH: We are all Earthlings

“Three primary forces exist on this planet – nature, animals, and human kind. However, it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects...

by Adriana De Sousa Calado

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World Food Day: The Cost Of Meat

The devastating effects of mass meat production and how the increasing demand for meat has changed the world. Most people love meat and they always have, especially in Europe, meat can be found on consumers plates on a daily ba...

by Nane Steinhoff

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Bengal tigers under threat: Only 106 left in the Bangladesh Sundarbans Forest

The number of Bengal tigers in the world’s largest mangrove forest has decreased dramatically according to new figures. It stated that only some 100 Bengal tigers were found in the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans Fores...

by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

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Food for Thought: How to Treat Poachers

China’s Dog Meat Festival – Cruelty Or Culture?

Petri-Dish Patty: A Worrying or Brave Step in Future Meat Production?

Where does our food come from? Top 5 food documentaries

Kittens’ Eyes Sewn Shut For Experiments

WATCH: We are all Earthlings

World Food Day: The Cost Of Meat

Bengal tigers under threat: Only 106 left in the Bangladesh Sundarbans Forest

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