An animal rights group, backed by Toronto lawyer Clayton Ruby, is calling for an all-out ban on the slaughter of horses for human consumption in Canada – a practice that has increased here since it was stopped in the United States.Ruby called the...
Topics: Horse Slaughter, Video

Somewhere between two and four million dogs are consumed in South Korea every year, but the slaughtering and processing is carried out in dirty environments and poses a risks to diners’ health. In Apr 2008, the Seoul government has proposed...
Topics: dogs, food, korea

This is a pretty good site on making your own cat food.  The layout is admittedly old school circa 1995 but the amount of detail and links in it are valuable.  There are other sites out there that suggest possibly toxic additives in their recipes. ...
Topics: cat, homemade

If the recent mass recalls of tainted ground beef in our own *human* foods is any indication, we still need to be wary of tainted pet food. The rules and regulations regarding oversight on pet foods are largely just suggestions. Make sure that what...
Topics: cats, dogs, fda, pet food, tainted

This is the kind of stuff that just makes you sick to your stomach. It’s most unlikely that he’ll serve a day in jail. Hopefully they’ll fine him till he can’t breathe and then get kicked off the PGA. That would probably hurt...
Topics: golf, golfer, hawk, pga, TrippIsenhour