Under Islamic religious practices, Muslims cannot eat pork or animals that have not been ritually slaughtered.

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Dozens of official reports, plans and national strategies, and promises of technical help, have failed to overcome a vicious circle: most herders are poor, have too few animals, and cannot afford the improvements in breeding, pasture management and shearing needed to raise fibre quality and yield.

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That means I cannot attack all those who kill animals for profit, without being grossly hypocritical.

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The reason for the ban is the skin test currently used to identify cattle with TB cannot tell the difference between infected animals and those vaccinated with BCG.

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Plastic trophies, plush stuffed animals, and bragging rights cannot be monetized.

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"We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net, " he said.

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"There are lots of forbidden acts at the Western Wall: Do not spit on the wall, do not pee on the wall, no slaughtering of animals at the wall, and among those one cannot perform a religious act contrary to local customs at the wall, which pretty much only applies to women because there are no local customs men are forbidden from taking part in, " Hoffman said.

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"You cannot return to the past and collect data on the status of plants and animals, " Droege said.

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So we cannot justifiably use these criteria to draw a distinction between all humans on the one hand and all nonhuman animals on the other.

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