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	<title>Let's Talk Farm Animals &#187; Meat/slaughter plants</title>
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		<title>Reporter feels business end of electric prod</title>
		<link>http://www.letstalkfarmanimals.ca/2009/07/23/reporter-feels-business-end-of-electric-prod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Meat/slaughter plants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator, 2008.06.06 
The use of battery-powered electric prods to get hogs moving is a controversial animal welfare issue. 
The prod is poked into the back or rump of the pig and with a push of a button, a flash of electric current jumps between two contacts. It&#8217;s enough to elicit a loud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the line</title>
		<link>http://www.letstalkfarmanimals.ca/2009/07/22/the-end-of-the-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator,2008.06.06 
It&#8217;s Friday, May 9. I didn&#8217;t need my alarm clock this morning. I was wide awake by 4 a.m. 
I admit that I was a little apprehensive. This is Piggy&#8217;s last day. This morning, he&#8217;s being shipped from the Littlejohns&#8217; farm in the hamlet of Glen Morris to Great Lakes Specialty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These little piggies go to market</title>
		<link>http://www.letstalkfarmanimals.ca/2009/07/22/these-little-piggies-go-to-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luisa D&#8217;Amato, Waterloo Region Record, July 12, 2008
The hogs are just a few minutes away from death.
High-pitched screams pierce the warm air at Conestoga Meat Packers, a pork processing plant near Breslau.
Men with plastic paddles push the dusty animals, each as heavy as a football player, toward a covered, metal passageway.
Often the pigs are calm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse owners concerned about proposed transportation legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.letstalkfarmanimals.ca/2009/07/21/horse-owners-concerned-about-proposed-transportation-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[08Dec19 By SHANNON RUCKMAN, The Prairie Star editor
BILLINGS, Mont. &#8211; With close to 10 million horses in the nation, Montana horse owners and enthusiasts are concerned about the welfare of the equine industry if legislation is passed banning the transport of horses to slaughter facilities.
“H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PETA&#8217;s New Anti-Leather Ad in Security Checkpoint Bins Could Help Cash-Strapped Airport&#8217;s Bottom Line Take Off</title>
		<link>http://www.letstalkfarmanimals.ca/2009/07/21/petas-new-anti-leather-ad-in-security-checkpoint-bins-could-help-cash-strapped-airports-bottom-line-take-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release:
December 15, 2008
Memphis, Tenn. &#8212; In light of the Transportation Security Administration&#8217;s decision to allow advertising on the bins used at airport checkpoints in order to pay for security equipment upgrades, PETA has dispatched a letter to Larry D. Cox, president and CEO of Memphis International Airport (MEM).

PETA is offering to buy space [...]]]></description>
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