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...Although people in Beijing don't generally eat dogs, which are raised for meat in the south of the country, the idea of dogs as pets hadn't caught on back then. That time, however, is long past. Today it seems everyone in my neighborhood has a dog. Genghis barely attracts any notice. Like humans, pet dogs must be registered with the local police station; owners pay a fee for registration. This is a lot of money and thus a dog confers a certain status on its owner...
...concerned, than if you killed dogs and sent them to France." T. BOONE PICKENS, billionaire Texas oilman, prior to testifying before Congress last week in favor of a ban on the industrial slaughter of horses in the U.S. Nearly 100,000 horses are killed each year for their meat, which is exported to Europe and Japan, where it is considered a delicacy...
...BOONE PICKENS, billionaire Texas oilman, prior to testifying before Congress last week in favor of a ban on the industrial slaughter of horses in the U.S. Nearly 100,000 horses are killed each year for their meat, which is exported to Europe and Japan, where it is considered a delicacy...
...waited in dazed and nervous clumps just inside Syria, beside the armada of taxis that had carried them over the border. Children slumbered in the backs of cars; groups of head-scarved women sat in silent groups under makeshift tent shelters, waiting for meals of donated pita and canned meat...
...oversees and spends millions in taxpayer dollars supervising these plants - Dallas Crown in Kaufman as well as Beltex Corporation in Fort Worth, and Cavel International in DeKalb, Ill. - although selling horsemeat is banned in a lot of states. "It's incredible to me that our money is wasted on meat being shipped out of the country," he says...