Are pigs about to migrate from the dinner table to the operating table?
Using animals as a source of organs for transplantation into humans was once one of medicine’s next big things – a solution to transplant waiting lists…
Daily Archives: October 21, 2011
Australia Tightens Animal Export Rules
Australia Friday tightened livestock export rules, months after graphic TV footage of cruelty in Indonesian abattoirs led to a ban on sending cattle to the Southeast Asian nation.
Under the new standards, exporters will have to guarantee the welfare of all livestock — cattle, sheep and goats — that leave Australia for slaughter through each foreign supply chain until the point of death…
Man Who Freed Ohio Animals Was In Debt
The owner of an exotic animal preserve who committed suicide after freeing dozens of lions, tigers and other beasts owed tens of thousands in unpaid taxes, and a fellow big-cat enthusiast said that he had taken in so many creatures he was “in over his head”…