Meat Packing Industry Criticized on Human Rights Grounds
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The nation's meat packing industry has such bad working conditions that it violates basic human and worker rights, said Human Rights Watch.
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The meat from wild animals killed illegally is being sold in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, a report has said.
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Sanctions on Calif. meatpacker covers 143M pounds of meat processed from sickly animals.
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By Detroit Free Press  Jun. 23--With the threat of a lawsuit, eight wildlife and conservation groups have put welcome additional pressure on the shipping industry to stop delivering foreign species here.
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Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
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The  largest U.S. pork supplier, Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, said yesterday that it will require its producers to phase out the practice of keeping pregnant pigs in "gestation crates" -- metal and concrete cages that animal welfare advocates consider one of the most inhumane features of large-scale factory farming....
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The Humane Society said on Wednesday a California slaughterhouse was using a range of torture including waterboarding to prod unfit animals into the slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food that may have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs.
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McDonald's Corp. said on Wednesday  it is studying whether to require its chicken suppliers to use  a more humane slaughter method following a proposal by an  animal rights group that holds shares in the fast-food chain.
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The murder trial of three men accused of throwing a black farm worker to the lions offers an extreme example of the plight of farm workers in a country that still has a culture of violence, human rights researchers said.
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter
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Food flown into Britain from developing countries must meet strict ethical trade standards or risk losing its organic status, if proposals from the Social Association Thursday go into force.
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Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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An animal rights group filed a complaint Wednesday against a kosher slaughterhouse for alleged cruelty to cattle. The slaughterhouse called the complaint a veiled attack on religious freedom.
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Human rights campaigners outraged at Foreign Office minister Kim Howells' visit to Colombia
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Sudanese government officials  responsible for the slaughter in Darfur and U.S. officials tied  to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq should be held  accountable and prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said in its  annual world survey released on Thursday.
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China has sent a notice to the World  Health Organisation defending its food safety standards and  repeating what is now becoming a standard line that more than  99 percent of its food exports are up to standard.
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SAN FRANCISCO Selectively breeding turkeys for their white meat over so many generations has led to some health care problems for America&#39;s favorite holiday meal.