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Rabbis: EU meat label bid an 'insult'
Jewish religious leaders up in arms over bill aiming to indicate how animal was slaughtered, warning it could kill kosher food business by portraying their ritual as 'barbaric'
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Church declines vegan ads
A Morgantown church has declined an offer from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to post public service ads during its services depicting a "fit" Jesus calling for a vegan lifestyle -- in exchange for a vegetarian cookout.
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Vegetarian named new British Humanist Association President
Philosopher, broadcaster and author Anthony Grayling has been appointed as the next President of the British Humanist Association. He succeeds journalist, broadcaster, and social justice campaigner Polly Toynbee to take up the position from July 2011 and will serve a two-year term as the Association’s eleventh president, and the first philosopher to hold the office since A J Ayer in the 1960s.
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