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A bipartisan bill aims to stop commercial octopus farming before it starts.
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Why Anti-Trans Campaigns Keep Returning to the Politics of Meat
Recent anti-trans political ads were funded in part by meat industry trade groups, including multiple ads comparing trans people to cattle.
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How an Oregon Community Group Fought a Factory Farm and Won
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