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The rough road to slaughter: Farm animals often spend their last days travelling long distances cramped into lorries, hungry and thirsty. The single European market for 1992 may make matters worse. But there are ways to transport animals in far less disc
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A whiff of happiness: Can smelling a molecule contained in human sweat ease anxiety and stress? Some scientists think so, and argue that ‘osmotherapy’ may also help people to slim or stop smoking
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Zoos ‘must join forces’ to save threatened habitats
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Kinder ways to kill: Few British livestock go gentle intothat good night, but new regulations aimed at improving abattoirs do notgofar enough – As politicians prevaricate, researchers have already foundbetter ways of reducing the suffering caused by
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Who’s a clever parrot, then?: Few people would think it ethical to keep an ape in a cage in their front room, but parrots may be as bright as primates. And trade in parrots as pets is driving many to extinction
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