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What is wrong with humans?

What’s wrong with humans? Two tweets of animal cruelty.

Twitter feeds a customised list of tweets to users. I know that. But it doesn’t make it any easier to digest. What is wrong with humans that they have to be so consistently cruel to animals? A lot of people don’t think about animal cruelty as they live in their little human-centric bubble. Or they …

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Novak Djokovic is NOT completely vegan

All the websites on the Internet are telling me that Novak Djokovic is a vegan. His diet is certainly fantastic and super-healthy. It requires self-discipline which he has in abundance. However, a recent article in The Times following his victory at The French Open tells me quite conclusively that Novak is not truly vegan because …

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What is wrong with this picture?

Are you bloated too often? Stop drinking cow’s milk!

The picture below encouraged me to write this post. Also, the fact that I have first-hand experience of being bloated by cow’s milk because of lactose intolerance. I sense that most people don’t know if they are lactose intolerant. They might not have heard of it. They accept that they become bloated after eating and …

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Good point.

How the f**k can we feed 60 billion farm animals but not 7.9 billion humans?

Here is the tweet which asks the above question in an image: The answer apparently, according to Mike Gordon, who commented on the picture is: Because most farm animals can eat the 80% of inedible by-products from crop waste, food wate, and grazing. Farm animals, especially ruminant animals, can eat a lot of things we …

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Frogs' legs

Frogs are dismembered while alive and discarded to take their legs for consumption

NEWS AND COMMENT: Did you realise that the well-known dish that the French love, frogs’ legs in garlic, are the product of mass animal cruelty? That’s what animal activists have said at the world’s biggest celebration of frogs legs in Vittel, eastern France. It is their annual frog fair. 99% of the frogs legs eaten …

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FSA hoodwinked by meat supplier employees

UK Food Standards Authority (FSA) allegedly systematically hoodwinked by UK meat supplier into passing inspections

This has been described as a “rotten meat scandal” in The Times, which could lead to Defra taking charge of the Food Standards Authority in the UK. An investigation by Farmer’s Weekly claimed that a UK meat supplier systematically fooled the FSA into passing inspections at its facilities. They did this for years. Allegedly they …

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Muntjac deer

Suggestions to shoot muntjac deer in the UK as they are pests

Ali Hussain, writing for The Sunday Times, is fed up with muntjac deer and he has suggested that they are shot and eaten. But he admits that there are problems with the suggestion. Firstly, he tells us that he bought a home in Norfolk close to the Waveney River because he had harboured for a …

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Industrious Chinese man prepares and cooks a horse's head in the open

Energetic and industrious Chinese man prepares and cooks a horse’s head and it is sickening

I am doing a series of posts about Chinese cuisine in China. To Europeans and North Americans, it can look disgusting. To the Chinese it is normal. The difference is in the attitude towards animals. Many Chinese in China regard animals as utilitarian meaning that they need to benefit humans in a functional way other …

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Elderly should not eat smoked salmon to avoid risk of listeria poisoning

Raw fish health alert. Elderly and pregnant women at risk from listeria

The elderly and pregnant should not eat smoked salmon to avoid the risk of listeria poisoning. There is a tiny report in The Times newspaper today about a raw fish health alert and it concerns specifically pregnant women and elderly people who should not eat raw smoked fish because of the risk of listeria as …

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