November 2011
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Laboratory Dogs Free For First Time.
Forty beagles raised since birth in a pharmaceutical testing laboratory have been released and their first steps out into the real world were caught on tape.
Members of the Beagle Freedom Project brought the pups to LA hoping they would be able to find good homes. When the dogs arrived in the US, they were still in crates. In their whole lives, they were never allowed to experience physical...
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Store Sells More Video Games Than Milk.
Popular UK grocery store chain Sainsbury’s is reporting that unconventional items like video games, DVDs, and whiskey are selling better than milk.
It used to be that milk was in such high demand that grocery stores would put the milk case at the very back of the store so customers would have to walk through the entire store to get to it. Now, with the introduction of some unconventional...
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Most Turkey Meat Contains Feces.
Every Thanksgiving, millions of Americans chow down on turkey unaware that the bird on their table is most likely covered in feces.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regularly tests the health of the nation’s food supply and this latest survey has detected a significant amount of fecal matter on most of the turkey meat in the country. The CDC estimates that 9 out of 10...
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Cheese Cut With Real Gold.
Just in time for the holiday season, Clawson Dairy in the UK have realeased a limited edition cheese filled with real gold.
At just over $100 a slice, Clawson churned up gold cheese for their ”rich and famous” customers. In case you were wondering if you’d be getting your money’s worth, Clawson told the Daily Mail UK “You can see the gold clearly in the slices and...
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Bestiality Linked to Penile Cancer.
A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine shows a possible connection between men who have sex with animals and an increased risk of penile cancer.
Researchers compared hundreds of penile cancer patients with hundreds of healthy men. Of both samples, a whopping 34.8% of the men admitted to having sex with animals but more men from the cancer group admitted to bestiality. From the...
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Pet Killers Collect Insurance Money.
The Association of British Insurers is raising alarm about a disturbing trend, people killing and injuring family pets to collect insurance money.
Currently, 2.3 million cats and dogs in Britain are covered by insurance plans. If an insured animal gets sick or injured, their insurance company will pay part or all of their vet expenses and if the animal dies an “early death” the...
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Stop The NYPD From Abusing Horses.
Occupy Wall Street activists clash with police every week; many are injured and media attention to the cause grows but what seems to have been forgotten is the trauma that the incidents cause police horses.
The NYPD are riding horses into stressful and chaotic situations. Thousands of screaming activists waving signs and banners clash with armored police with pepper spray and bull horns and...
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Army Making Caffeinated Beef Jerky.
An Army lab outside of Boston, Mass. Is experimenting with infusing caffeine in beef jerky to help give soldiers an energy boost on the battlefield.
Among other “improvements” to military cuisine, the Massachusetts Army lab is working to create a beef jerky stick with as much caffeine as a strong cup of coffee. They hope the stick will be able to give energy to even the sleepiest...
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Mostly Food: Official McRib Ingredient List.
The McRib seems to the be the McDonalds menu item that everyone loves to hate and not without good reason. Not only is this nasty sammie made for the most unwanted bits of abused pigs, it’s filled with stuff that shouldn’t even be called food. Seriously, this thing contains azodicarbonamide which is used to bleach foam rubber gym mats.
Check out this offical list of McRib...
Going To Italy...
Hey everyone!
I’m taking off for Italy for about a week so things might slow down a little around here but I’ll continue to post when I can.
I’m looking forward to sampling all the soy gelato and stuffing my face with real Italian pizza!
Ciao.
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Alabama's Raw Meat Vending Machine.
Everyone’s used to the tiny bags of chips, old candy, and soda found in the common vending machine, but two Alabama businessmen have cooked up an idea for one that sells raw meat.
The Smart Butcher allows you to use cash or debit cards to purchase small packages of raw meat. The meat vending machine carries everything from steak to sirloin tips to sausages all for under $6. The first...
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Dog Held For Ransom Found Dead.
Jagger in happier times.
Two men are facing extortion charges after stealing an English bulldog and holding him for ransom before eventually killing him.
Jesse James Clark and Johnny Lee Norton stole Jagger from the home where he lived with a partially paralyzed woman in a wheelchair. The two attempted to extort a ransom of $1,000 and some pain pills from Jagger’s owner through text...
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Naked Woman Kills Horse, Climbs Inside.
A truly disturbed couple from Portland, Oregon, is under investigation after they killed a horse, skinned the body, and climbed inside…naked.
Twenty-one year old aspiring model, Jasha Lottin, and her male companion have posted pictures of themselves online, covered in blood and posing provocatively with a dead horse. The two bought a horse in Washington State, shot him in the head with a...
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October's Top Stories.
October was a truly spooky month. Among other things, we’ve seen people “living like dairy cows” and loving it, horses dying in the middle of Manhattan, and dudes munching on roadkill. I can’t wait to see what November brings but first, here are the top stories from October:
5. Carriage Horse Dies in NYC Street.
An exhausted and overworked carriage horse lays down and...