$5000 reward offered to solve a series of animal cruelty cases at Toorbul, Kurwongbah and Deception Bay
Rebecca Danslow
A $5000 reward has been offered in hope of catching those responsible for shooting two kangaroos at Toorbul during the past week.
One died after being hit by two arrows, while the other survived.
CQUniversity senior lecturer in psychology Dr Tania Signal said the whole community needed to take a stand.
“People will know who these people are”, Dr Signal said. “If you suspect it, report it to the RSPCA“, she said …
Courier Mail – February 20, 2014 12:00 AM
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Is It Wrong to Love Meatless Ribs?
By Ryan Struyk
If it looks like ribs and it tastes like ribs, then it must be ribs, right? Wrong.
A cow and a pig mascot from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were out Tuesday in Washington, D.C.’s Eastern Market neighborhood handing out “meatless ribs” – for those who were brave enough to try it …
ABC News (blog) – Feb 19, 2014 5:20 AM
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How we all kill whales
By Michael Moore
My first job after veterinary school in 1983 was for the International Whaling Commission ( iwc.int/home ) examining the efficacy of explosive harpoons for killing fin whales on an Icelandic whaling vessel. Later, I encountered a very different way of killing whales. A North Atlantic right whale was first sighted entangled in fishing gear in May of 1999. Five months later it was dead off Cape May, New Jersey. The entangling rope and gillnet, bound around both armpits, and tightly stretched over its back, had dissected off the blubber leaving a massive wound (below) while it was still alive …
OUPblog (blog) – February 19th, 2014 at 3:30 AM
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Endangered whale meat shipped via Halifax en route to Japan
Meat shipped from Iceland to Japan, neither country lists fin whales as ‘at-risk’ species.
The Canadian Press
Environmentalists are pushing for stricter trade laws in Canada involving at-risk species after the recent shipment of fin whale meat across the country.
Greenpeace Canada says the meat recently arrived in Halifax from Iceland and travelled by train across the country enroute to Japan …
CBC.ca – Feb 18, 2014 3:18 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sc…
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