Today’s industrial turkeys reach 32 pounds in just 18 weeks… the equivalent of an 11-year-old child weighing 300 pounds.
(Source: biologybiozine.com)
Over 20,000 elephants are illegally slaughtered every year, so the ivory can be ripped from their jaws and sold on the black market.
(Source: bushwarriors.org.s130414.gridserver.com)
Killing 6000 Wolves to Protect Oil Sands Interests
“An anticipated 6,000 wolves will be gunned down from helicopters above, or killed by poison strychnine bait planted deep in the forest. Biologists and other experts say the cull is misguided, and that their studies have been ignored or suppressed. Worse, they warn that although the government is framing the wolf cull as a temporary measure, it has no foreseeable end.”
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