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Agriculture Minister wants stricter rules for slaughterhouses

Minister Piet Adema of Agriculture is planning stricter rules for slaughterhouses in the Netherlands. These include mandatory surveillance with smart cameras, a ban on electroshock weapons, and a more stringent enforcement system that will close a slaughterhouse after three violations. Adema is determined to improve animal welfare in the Dutch meat industry, he said in a letter to parliament, Trouw reports. ....

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Forest for Thieves: Why Illegal Harvesting of South Sudanese Teak Leaves Nothing for the People


Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa.
The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Africa, displacing more than two million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger.
Cigarettes made by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT) and distributed with the help of another major, Imperial Brands, through a company partially owned by the Malian state, dominate this dirty and dangerous trade. ....

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