19 July 2002
Jesse Helms – man or mouse?
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Free Press Staff
There’s good and bad news on the animal rights front. Here’s our investigative correspondent Iggy to bring us the latest news:

Jesse Helms – man or mouse?

Jesse Helms, a Republican Senator from...
02 May 2002
Coalition: Farm Bill Amendment Weakens AWA
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U.S. Newswire
Farm Bill Amendment Weakens Animal Welfare Act To Exclude Most Animals Used in Labs from Humane Protection; Coalition Urges Defeat

Contact: Nancy Blaney of the Working Group to Preserve the Animal Welfare Act, 703-521...
10 April 2002
Black Hog Down
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Iggy the Pot-Bellied Pig
BWar is hard on animals too. Animal People newspaper and other mainstream news sources wrote about Marjan, the famous elderly lion, blinded by a grenade in 1995, who died in the Afghanistan zoo. Only in Animal People do we also learn...
12 February 2002
Hemp Food Stays in Stores
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Brian Horstman
DEA Backs Down in Face of Imminent Court Action

ARLINGTON, VA -- The Drug Enforcement Administration handed a victory to the multimillion-dollar-a-year hemp food industry last night when they told the U.S. Court of Appeals...
27 January 2002
Slaves to fashion: What fur?
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Iggy the Pot-Bellied Pig
Speaking as an animal that has, throughout time, been eyeballed by humans as mostly a delectable honey-baked ham or candidate for a barbecue – always the main course, never the guest – I’m not writing this for my own or my species sake....
16 January 2002
DEA to ban hemp foods, New legislation will criminalize retailers
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Brian Horstman
According to a recent DEA ruling, hemp foods will fall under the category of a Schedule I narcotic after a grace period ending on February 6th, 2002. By that time all retailers and manufacturers are to have disposed of any of their...

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