Day: September 5, 2007

Will Canadians stomach a horsemeat industry

NEAR NEUDORF, SASK. — At the end of a remote gravel road in southern Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley is the next target in a growing movement to rid North America of its horse slaughterhouses. Horse advocates in both Canada and the United States are outraged that this vast green valley, lush and rolling, is now home to this country’s newest federally licensed horse abattoir: Natural Valley Farms Inc. For more info click here 

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World Rabies Day Strives to Make Rabies History

  SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — World Rabies Day, Sept. 8, 2007 is a new, international event launching global efforts to eliminate rabies. The inaugural event will remind people that rabies is still a very deadly but preventable disease. Last year alone, at least 55,000 people died of rabies worldwide, including three in the United States, which had almost 7,000 confirmed cases of animal rabies. In the United States, rabies is still present in bat populations (as well as regionally in raccoon, fox, and skunk) in every state but Hawaii, according to a rabies surveillance report published in the

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