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Sữa bò như nước trong chuồng chảy ra:

reality of life for “battery cows”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-animal-rights

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Some of the UK’s biggest food firms are accused of misleading consumers after buying their milk from intensive industrial dairy units despite using images to promote their products that show cows grazing in green fields.

Tens of thousands of dairy cattle in England are kept in hangar-style sheds with no or very limited access to pasture. They will typically be milked three times daily, often on large electronic rotating milk parlours, producing up to 32 litres of milk each day.

“These battery cows are denied their most inherent instinct: grazing on grass outdoors,” said Juliet Gellatley, the founder and director of Viva!, which promotes veganism. “Consumers are misled into believing that cows graze outdoors.”

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Công anh cắt cỏ nuôi bò
Bò ăn bò đứng bò rò sữa tươi
(Cow da)

Súp mang cá?

manta rays are chopped up in Sri Lanka
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...p-in-sri-lanka

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In a courtyard across from the market, Lakshan dries the gill plates on a corrugated iron board. Then he sells them to another trader for as much as $130 (£104) per kilo. It seems a high price, but Lakshan needs 5kg of fresh gill plates for every kilo of dried ones.

Dried gill plates are indeed often sold in medicine and dried seafood markets across east Asia, but are not used in traditional Chinese medicine. The growing demand for ray gill plates stems from market vendors using them to make soup that they tout a remedy for various health issues.

Small-scale fisheries across Sri Lanka kill manta and devil rays (collectively known as mobulids), including endangered and vulnerable species, just to export their gill plates. A recent study showed that more mobulid rays are caught in Sri Lanka alone than the annual global catch across large industrial fisheries.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a182c...5&dpr=2&s=none

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Ngó tới ngó lui rồi con gì cũng kêu là bổ.

Cá không ăn hết cá hư
Con gì cũng bổ giống như thuốc thần
(Cá dao)

Bò đá:

raging bull chases players from field
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ers-from-field

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The Catalans owner, Bernard Guasch, is the owner of a local meat-processing plant, and it was his idea to allow the bulls onto the field before the match.

The home team were wearing red warm-up tops, giving the bull extra motivation.

Spooked by the massive crowd (and perhaps incensed at being paraded as a meat product), the horned behemoth dragged one of its pursuers several metres before galloping its way into the in-goal area and eventually slowing down, allowing its embarrassed handlers to regain control.

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Trong vòng sân bóng rối bời
Thấy bò còn đứng giữa trời trơ trơ
(Đoạn trường ngưu thanh)

Con dê buồn tự tử giữa đêm sương:

voice crying for help by sad goat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...lice-goat-help

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Police officers in Oklahoma responding to what they thought was a man crying for help got a surprise on reaching the scene: the anguished cries they heard on a farm near Enid were actually those of a goat.

The farm owner told them the goat had been separated from a friend and was very upset.

In 2013, another pair of cops mistook goat cries for human screams. According to Yahoo, someone in Putnam county, Tennessee, called 911, reporting hearing cries for help which the dispatcher could hear through the phone.

When the officers arrived, they found a goat tied to a fence. The episode was detailed in an incident report.

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Em đi rồi một mình dê đứng cô đơn
Nông trang buồn lạnh lùng tiếng dê nỉ non
Dê có còn lặng nghe khúc hát yêu thương
Những buổi chiều về nồng ấm nông trường…
(Dê đi rồi)

Lươn lậu: lươn y như từ đâu

Police in Spain and France break up international eel smuggling gang
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...smuggling-gang

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Police in Spain and France have arrested 27 people and seized 1.5 tonnes of live baby eels, as well as goods worth more than €2m (£1.7m), after breaking up a gang dedicated to breeding the critically endangered fishes and smuggling them to China.

Officers also recovered tonnes of frozen baby eels, called elvers, which are prized as a delicacy in Spain and parts of Asia, that had not been subject to any food safety checks and were not suitable for human consumption.

Given its critically endangered status on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list of threatened species, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is subject to EU quotas on fishing and distribution, and its export beyond the bloc is strictly forbidden.

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Miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn
Có ăn một miếng dối gian đủ trò
(Ca dao)

Vắng chủ nhà gà vọc metro:

errant chicken delays Mexico City metro service
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...chicken-delays

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Video posted by the Metro on Tuesday showed maintenance personnel and civil defense officers in hard hats chasing the errant fowl around the tracks with brooms, gloves and a trash bag.

The chicken eluded several attempts to capture it before one worker tossed his coat over the animal, and the metro system said service was quickly restored after the incident on Monday.

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Gió đưa cành trúc la đà
Nhân viên xe điện canh gà metro
(Ca dao)

Doggystyle: chuyện xứ Điên

Toronto candidates including one dog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...candidates-dog

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One of the last candidates to register was Molly, a seven-year-old Russian rescue dog. Owner Toby Heaps, who arrived at city hall on rollerblades, said he was a stand-in for the dog.He told reporters Molly’s biggest concerns were the city’s use of winter road salt, which hurts her paws.

He also said a victory for Molly would lead to more “civilized discourse” during council meetings. “You’ve probably noticed when you have an animal in the room, people are more human.”

Another candidate, grade 12 student Meir Straus, promised on his campaign website he is “definitely a real man and NOT three raccoons in a trench coat”.

Meir (pronounced “mayor”), says his focus will be on “weed-smell, roundabouts, organ-shortages, Canada geese, God, labour, street preachers, hipsters, uncomfortable benches”, adding that he’s the youngest candidate, so he won’t die in office. He also says because he’s not married, he can’t have any affairs.

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It’s cool to vote for the dog.

Con chó khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Người ơi đi bầu cho tôi thị trưởng
(Ca dao)

Chằng tinh: coming to a boutique near you…

Could handbags be the haute couture solution to Florida’s python problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...vasive-species

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The process starts with hunters in the Everglades tracking, trapping and humanely killing pythons, which can grow up to 20ft in length. Inversa processes and tans the skins, which Piper & Skye, a New York accessory brand known for environmental ethics as well as its upmarket leather products, makes into a range of colorful handbags. Those at the top of the range go for almost $1,000.

But pythons, the new apex predator of the Florida swamplands after usurping the native American alligator, continue to reign supreme. The USGS survey earlier this year showed the python population, which experts think began with pet owners releasing unwanted reptiles in the 1980s, is spreading further and faster than ever before.

“The Everglades used to be abounded with sound and energy and life, there used to be songbirds, and marsh hares, and rabbits and otters, just tons of native life. Now it’s just silent and totally dead.”

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Rồi từ đó loài sâu nửa đêm quên đi ưu phiền
Để người về hát đêm hồng
Địa đàng còn in dấu trăn quấn qua
(Dấu trăn địa đàng)

To bear with bear:

Canadian cyclist recovering after collision with bear
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...list-vancouver

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Kevin Milner was riding the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve near Vancouver when he spotted the black bear in the grass. Wildlife, including deer, is common along the thickly forested double-track.

But instead of ignoring the cyclist, the bear charged forward. Milner crashed into the bear’s shoulder and went flying through the air.

Interactions between bears and humans are relatively common, but dangerous ones are rare. However, last year the province closed the entire Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve after a black bear reportedly bit a 10-year-old girl walking along a trail.

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Nực cười con gấu đá xe
Tưởng gấu ngã ai dè xe hư
(Ca dao)

Cứu vật người trả án:

California man killed after helping family of ducks cross road safely
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...cks-road-cross

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When he spotted the ducks, Casey Rivara stopped his car at a red light and got out to help them. Rivara made sure traffic in all directions was stopped, witnesses said, then escorted the duck and her babies to the other side of the street around 8.15pm last Thursday in Rocklin, north-east of Sacramento.

“All the ducks made it safely across,” said Jude Peterson, 11, who was watching with a carpool group after track practice. “He did something amazing.”

Rivara was walking back to his car when a vehicle came through the intersection and struck him. The 41-year-old father of two flew through the air and landed in the street. He died at the scene.

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Trăm năm trong cõi người ta
Chữ tâm chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau
(Đoạn trường giao thông)