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In 2008, meat industry lobby group the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) said in a news release that "[a]n official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006," with a kill rate of 97.4 percent. [169]
From 1998 to 2011, the euthanasia rate of animals that entered the Austin, TX, city shelter went from 85% to less than 10%, and as of 2011 Austin is the largest no-kill city in the United States. [35] In August 2011, the City celebrated its highest save-rate month ever, in which the shelter saved 96% of all impounded animals. [36]
Capital punishment is legal in Singapore. The number of judicial executions has fluctuated widely depending on crime rates; at its highest point, according to unofficial statistics compiled by Amnesty International, about 408 people were hanged between 1991 and 2003; [20] at its lowest point in 2010, none were executed. [21]
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 19, 2024.
When operations resumed there was some divided opinions in the committees that steered the society about employing inspectors, which resulted in a resolution in 1832 to discontinue employing an inspector. The permanent appointment of a salaried inspector was settled in 1838, and the inspector is the image best known of the organisation today. [21]
A knife-wielding man was shot dead on Christmas Eve in Worcestershire after a standoff with armed officers, West Mercia Police say. The force say officers were called by paramedics to an address ...
They’re having themselves a cheesy little Christmas. A New Jersey deli is crafting 2-foot-tall ravioli Christmas trees — and they’re fry-ing off the shelf.