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02 May 2002
Coalition: Farm Bill Amendment Weakens AWA
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U.S. Newswire
Farm Bill Amendment Weakens Animal Welfare Act To Exclude Most Animals Used in Labs from Humane Protection; Coalition Urges Defeat

Contact: Nancy Blaney of the Working Group to Preserve the Animal Welfare Act, 703-521...
10 April 2002
Black Hog Down
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Iggy the Pot-Bellied Pig
BWar is hard on animals too. Animal People newspaper and other mainstream news sources wrote about Marjan, the famous elderly lion, blinded by a grenade in 1995, who died in the Afghanistan zoo. Only in Animal People do we also learn...
12 February 2002
Hemp Food Stays in Stores
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Brian Horstman
DEA Backs Down in Face of Imminent Court Action

ARLINGTON, VA -- The Drug Enforcement Administration handed a victory to the multimillion-dollar-a-year hemp food industry last night when they told the U.S. Court of Appeals...
27 January 2002
Slaves to fashion: What fur?
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Iggy the Pot-Bellied Pig
Speaking as an animal that has, throughout time, been eyeballed by humans as mostly a delectable honey-baked ham or candidate for a barbecue – always the main course, never the guest – I’m not writing this for my own or my species sake....
16 January 2002
DEA to ban hemp foods, New legislation will criminalize retailers
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Brian Horstman
According to a recent DEA ruling, hemp foods will fall under the category of a Schedule I narcotic after a grace period ending on February 6th, 2002. By that time all retailers and manufacturers are to have disposed of any of their...
06 January 2002
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Top Five Nuclear List for 2001
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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has released its Top Five List of Nuclear Events for 2001. Topping the list is the US notice of withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The second spot on the list is the US boycott of...

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