That put the clock back for the nascent breeding industry as well as horse racing.

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They're the result of unethical breeding in an inhumane industry.

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It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.

CNN: The Really Useful Guide

Rural U.S. lawmakers with ties to the cattle industry and economically-strapped horse breeding registries have been pushing to reopen horse slaughter plants in the states since the last three plants shut down in 2007 (two in Texas, one in Illinois).

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John McTiernan and his wife Donna Dubrow, fresh from Los Angeles and the film industry, threw themselves into restoration, breeding new livestock (a lean-meat hybrid called a Beefalo), replanting tired fields, building reservoirs, and repairing old irrigation ditches.

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The consequence for the racing industry is that they have spend several decades breeding genetically inferior horses to one another based on their somewhat deceptive winning records.

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What we're losing is not just hurricane protection and a few jobs for hunting and fishing guides, but also the breeding grounds that support half this nation's seafood industry.

CNN: Your e-mails: 'Clean up our wetlands'

Dr Rex Brennan, who leads the blackcurrant breeding programme, said the conference was a great opportunity to promote the industry.

BBC: Blackcurrants

Though bucking bull breeders can trace a few lines back to the 1930s, the targeted breeding of bucking bulls did not take off until the 1990s, when DNA analysis became the industry standard for determining parentage.

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