“Fresh whole rabbit” becomes new Three Wolf Shirt on Amazon

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The “fresh whole rabbit” is hot on Amazon. Almost as hot as the famous and powerful Three Wolf Shirt. Reviewers say it’s convenient, low maintenance and fun!

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Young NE state senator aims to rid state of horse rescue groups to promote horsemeat and slaughterrescue groups to promote slaughter

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Neb. state senator Tyson Larson wants to force the state’s 2 horse rescue groups to take any horse and divert grain inspection funds to horsemeat inspection.

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Horsemeat convention strategizes to win over (or trick) public

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Las Vegas’ horse summit tries to pretend animal welfare groups, Temple Grandin and common sense are on their side.

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World Will Either Need 2x as Much Meat by 2050 or We Could Eat a Little Less

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Even USDA data shows meat consumption actually shrinking in the last few years, both here and abroad. The typical U.S. household at 43 kilograms of beef a year in 2006, but has cut back to 39.3 kg–a 9% decrease.

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DNA Reveals International Black Market for Whale Meat; Also: Horse Meat Fraud

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The whale meat sold at a hipster Santa Monica sushi restaurant came from Japan, a paper in Royal Society’s Biology Letters shows. The results highlight a growing body of research that shows there’s a thriving international black market for whales caught both under the guise of research and bycatch.  

We all knew that the whale sushi sold in the U.S. wasn’t caught off the Santa Monica pier, but we didn’t know where it came from beyond the Mercedes in the parking lot. Biologists now want the normally flaccid International Whaling Commission to stand up to recalcitrant whaling countries and demand a public DNA registry of the whales they admit taking.  The database of legal whales could show just how many whales are being poached.

Charles Hableton, producer of the Cove, is the big Hollywood name on the paper and at the original sting operation, but the big academic name is C. Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University. Baker is a pioneer in using whalemeat DNA to show where whales were caught–often where they weren’t supposed to. Some of his previous work has shown:

Some sei whale meat sold in Japan inexplicably came from the southern hemisphere.  Japan’s fish markets sold meat from 19 individual fin whales at a time they only admitted to taking 15. 46% of whalemeat sold was from protected local waters–suggesting that “bycatch” kills as many as “scientific research” whaling

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