| July 25, 2004 | -
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a videotape of workers in a chicken factory stomping on live chickens and throwing them against a wall; the undercover investigator who documented the abuse said that he saw hundreds of cruel acts, including squeezing birds till they explode.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 9, 2004 | - A chicken
farmer in Alaska
injected eggs with dye to produce orange, red, green, purple, pink, and blue chicks. Colored ducklings were also available.
| Source:
BBC
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| February 22, 2004 | -
President Bush's dog Spot was put down.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| December 31, 2003 | - In response to the mad-cow crisis, the United States Department of Agriculture banned the human consumption of cow brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes, and nerve tissue from cows older than 30 months. Downer cows may no longer be eaten by humans, though they will be boiled down and fed to chickens and pigs, and younger cow brains may still be eaten.
| Source:
Forbes, New York Times
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| October 17, 2003 | -
New Zealand abandoned its proposal to tax flatulent livestock.
| Source:
Ananova
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| September 30, 2003 | - Police shot and killed a 900-pound moose that wandered into downtown Portland, Maine.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 15, 2003 | - Wildlife workers in Hawaii asked for permission to exterminate up to 200 nonnative red-and-green parrots.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 2, 2003 | - Kroger and Albertsons agreed to label farm-raised salmon so that consumers will be made aware of the fact that such salmon, which is naturally gray, has been dyed pink.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 27, 2001 | - Three Greek shepherds found nine 2,300-year-old marble statues while building a fence.
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