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		<title>Congress: Stop the Reckless Big Cat Trade</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/17/congress-stop-the-reckless-big-cat-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Facts & Stats About Animal Cruelty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Truth About The Circus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shockingly, there are more captive tigers in the U.S. than there are in the wild.  Due to lack of laws, unqualified people may easily purchase and breed tigers and other big cats across the country. A recent HSUS investigation of one facility holding hundreds of big cats uncovered numerous dangerous public interactions with tigers, tiger [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=236&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misfit &#8211; One kitten&#8217;s story of survival</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/07/misfit-one-kittens-story-of-survival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janet Dubois My story began in late September. I was born outside. My  mother fed me and cleaned me and everything was fine for a while.  Then one day I woke up and my mother was gone. I did pretty well on my own. There were a few other cats to  hang around with, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=232&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carriage Horse Protection in New York City</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/07/carriage-horse-protection-in-new-york-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theanimaldefender</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carriage rides]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASPCA When you think about horses, where do you imagine them? Nature has shown us that they need space, room to move, pasture in which to graze. Horses are social animals and spend much of their time grazing together. New York City carriage horses live and work under conditions far removed from what nature intended [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=228&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grilled Vegetable Pizza</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/04/grilled-vegetable-pizza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Make Your Body Happy!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Schlimm&#124; April 30, 2012 Homemade veggie burgers and grilled sandwiches are often found at barbecues, but it’s time for another classic comfort food to step up and earn its grill stripes. Classic mix-and-match veggies from the local farmers’ market or your own backyard garden, a few iconic herbs, and even a meatless hot [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=224&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Congress to End Military Trauma Training on Animals!</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/04/tell-congress-to-end-military-trauma-training-on-animals/</link>
		<comments>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/04/tell-congress-to-end-military-trauma-training-on-animals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theanimaldefender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speak Up For Those Who Can't]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air Force's Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternatives to animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anatomical models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burned]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navy Trauma Training Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, and burned every year in cruel and crude U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) trauma training exercises, even though the military already relies on the use of lifelike simulators and other effective non-animal training methods and DoD regulations require that alternatives to animals be used when available. The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=221&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prince Williams Takes a Stand Against Poaching</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/01/prince-williams-takes-a-stand-against-poaching/</link>
		<comments>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/01/prince-williams-takes-a-stand-against-poaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theanimaldefender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities Taking Action!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh off of celebrating his one year wedding anniversary to Kate Middleton Sunday, Prince William is said to be slated to help highlight the problem of animal poaching in Africa by taking part in an anti-poaching project and documentary. Prince William is “furious” about the “senseless slaughter” of Max, a hand-reared rhinoceros who was killed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=214&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Investigation: Horses&#8217; 36-Hour Journey to Slaughter Exposed</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/01/breaking-investigation-horses-36-hour-journey-to-slaughter-exposed/</link>
		<comments>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/01/breaking-investigation-horses-36-hour-journey-to-slaughter-exposed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 18:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theanimaldefender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["kill pen" in Kalona]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, tens of thousands of American horses are killed for their flesh. Worse still, they are forced to endure journeys of hundreds of miles in cramped trucks—often in extreme weather without food or a drop of water—before reaching slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. It is a cruel industry that has been hidden from sight—until [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=211&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Up Against Misleading Missouri Bill That Would Paralyze Undercover Investigations!</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/05/01/speak-up-against-misleading-missouri-bill-that-would-paralyze-undercover-investigations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Urge your senator to oppose this bill today! House Bill (H.B.) 1860—which could stop vital undercover work that exposes routine, often violent, and criminal abuse of animals in the factory-farming industry—has just been passed by the Missouri House of Representatives and will now be considered by the Senate. If it becomes law, the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=208&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Animals Be Nice?</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/04/29/can-animals-be-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Humans have a code of ethics,&#8221; says Marc Bekoff, an animal behavior expert at the University of Colorado. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t play a certain way, you won&#8217;t play with me. Some animals have the same code.&#8221; Scientists recently discovered that animals who live in groups, such as elephants, foxes, and wolves, are especially likely to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=203&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three U.S. agencies aim to end animal testing</title>
		<link>http://theanimaldefender.com/2012/04/29/three-u-s-agencies-aim-to-end-animal-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY: An ambitious program announced Thursday by a coalition of government agencies could lead to the end of animal testing to evaluate the safety for humans of new chemicals and drugs. Three agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Toxicology Program and the National Institutes of Health — have signed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theanimaldefender.com&#038;blog=34938394&#038;post=200&#038;subd=theanimaldefender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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