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Snake meat - a dangerous bite: Shigella, Escherichia coli, Yersinia enterolitica, Campylobacter, Clostridium, Staphylococcus aureus for free!...more

Country-News:

Australia
Shippings of shame resume -- Since Indonesia is the single biggest trading partner for live cattle, it was to be expected that the export ban would not last long - cruelty or not... more

Belgium
Nouvelle Cuisine: Living shrimps wriggling on the table (but nor for long!).. more

Cameroon
Battling the Bushmeat Trade ... more

Finland
30 Pig Farms Investigated -- The campaign: Is this what we want to do to animals?
Update: Animal rights activists who secretly filmed Finnish pig farms two years ago may now face prison... more

Iceland
Want to watch and admire whales and afterwards munch on their flesh?... more

India
Camels: Long Haul To Death ... more

Indonesia
Jakarta’s illegal trade in threatened tortoises and turtles persisting, warns TRAFFIC... more

Mexico
Does meat really poison athletes? --- A slaughterhouse has been closed after the discovery of cattle contaminated with clenbuterol. According to the federal Health Department a staggering 68 percent of the animals at the slaughterhouse in Cuernavaca had the anabolic agent. This fact will add weight to the national soccer federation's declaration that tainted meat has caused the positive tests of some players. Yet another reason for going veg!... more

Philippines
Dog meat trading is getting dangerous - and expensive -- It's really happening: Dog meat traders are actually going to jail! ... more

S.Korea
Two million South Korean dogs are electrocuted, strangled, or bludgeoned to death each year... more

UK
Exclusive: Video Shows Pig Abuse At Abattoir... more

U.S.

-Meat Consumption Falls -- Due to an oversupply brought on by low demand, chicken (or broiler) meat slaughter is expected to slow dramatically in the second half of 2011... more

-Alligators, go jump in the tank! -- Because alligators are farmed and 'harvested' anyway in great numbers, some scientists find that parts of the reptiles' bodies may just as well power our cars... more


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Meat news is deeply depressing but hopefully there will be a light at the end of the blood soaked tunnel soon: Artificial meat!
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Source: Compilation EVANA
Author: div.

Link: Report on Observations at the Slaughterhouse “Murgaca S.A.”, Cartagena (Murcia), Spain
Link: Artificial Meat 6 Months Away, Hamburger In A Year, Say Scientists
Link: CIWF: EATING LESS MEAT IS PROVEN TO BE BETTER FOR HEALTH/British Heart Foundation says 45,000 lives could be saved if people in Britain eat less meat
Link: USA: New poll: Many U.S. adults unaware of key food safety practices
Link: “Tube Burgers: The World Of In Vitro Meat”