Horse slaughterhouse fights to stay open
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This agricultural town is nicknamed Barb City because the spiky wire was perfected here. But the mayor receives postcards from animal activists saying it should be called the city of barbarians.
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By Brittany Dorn, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 24--KILLINGWORTH -- Before this spring, Julie Shepard gave little  thought to the mounds of manure and dirty bedding produced at her horse farm  every day -- except for how best to rid herself of it.
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When the 65th running of the Massachusetts Handicap goes out of the gate this afternoon at Suffolk Downs, it will pose an interesting challenge for the thoroughbreds who mark the bookends of the eight-horse field.
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Feb. 19--Possible neighbors of the proposed hog farm in eastern Yuma  County aren't quite ready to accept an animal feeding operation in their  backyard even though the company intends to break ground this week.
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Forensic teams are combing a churchyard where animal activists have been blamed for digging up a grave.
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The struggle over the fate of two aging elephants at the Detroit Zoo might move to a new battleground, the zoo director said Friday.
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By Brian Callaway, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 22--The legal battle over changes to open space protections that would have allowed a new YMCA to be built on preserved land in Richland Township may be drawing to a close.
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Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; and even a veterinary...
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Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue Tuesday. Carcasses of pigs, goats and dogs and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city. Desperate people swarmed a truck delivering water.
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The government was set to continue slaughtering animals near the site of a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease Thursday, just days after officials declared they squelched its spread and lifted restrictions.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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Prized by some as a source of organic pork, feral hogs are threatening human and livestock health and tearing apart private property, critics say.
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While horses continue to fall off an extremely bumpy road to the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, Evening Attire keeps on trucking.
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The police are tired. A cattleman is in trouble. Residents are fed up. Who's the man to fix it?
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Employees at the now-closed Southern California slaughterhouse where inhumane treatment of cows was captured on a gruesome undercover video committed "egregious violations" of federal animal care regulations, the U.S. Agriculture Department has determined.
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SHELBY, Mont.  -The Canadian operator of a Montana horse feedlot must extinguish a large manure fire that sends a stench over Shelby, the state Department of Environmental Quality said.
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter