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This article was originally published on AnotherManmag.com, on 18 March 2018.On the first Sunday of every month, Dublin town centre would play host to an almost medieval event: the Smithfield Market.Here, horses would be bought and sold, and people from the local community would gather to meet.It was a chaotic and noisy affair and, apparently, one that smelled strongly of horse sweat, urine and dung.

Pet stores in New York State will soon be prohibited from selling dogs, cats and rabbits under a legislative ban meant to stem the sale of animals from breeding facilities that animal rights groups say subject pets to inhumane conditions.The legislation signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday means that New York will join a handful of other states, including California and Illinois, that have enacted similar bans designed to crack down on commercial breeders, sometimes called puppy or kitten mills.

The last days of Moby's once-beloved Silver Lake vegan restaurant Little Pine have come and gone without much of a goodbye.The seven-year-old restaurant permanently closed earlier this fall, though there have been rumors of a wine-focused rebrand at the Rowena Avenue space some time down the line; so far, nothing has come of all that talk.

The Ontario government says Kiska, the last captive killer whale in Canada, has died.A spokesperson for the solicitor general says Marineland the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park where Kiska lived told the province she died on Thursday.Brent Ross says the province's Animal Welfare Services officers were on-site as Marineland performed a necropsy.

New York City's ban on the sale of foie gras, the fattened livers of ducks and geese prized as an ingredient in many French dishes, may not go into effect if a new ruling by New York's Department of Agriculture and Markets goes unchallenged by the city.On Wednesday, the agriculture department called the city's law unreasonably restrictive to the two Sullivan County farms, La Belle Farm and Hudson Valley Foie Gras, that had sued in May over the ban.

When we discuss animal rights and welfare, we often reference two ideas: sentience (the ability to feel) and sapience (the capacity for complex intelligence).Yet, when we discuss robots and advanced artificial intelligence (AI), these two ideas are curiously absent from the debate.However, it may be time to talk more about robot rights.

At the end of the year that Julie Powell spent cooking every recipe (more or less) from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, she came to mayonnaise collee.It is a hand-whisked mayonnaise thickened with gelatin  a kind of stiff, salty garnish that was piped decoratively over aspics and the like in Mrs. Child's time.

Cambridge just became the fifth municipality in Massachusetts to ban the sale of fur within its community.The ordinance, approved unanimously by the City Council at its meeting Monday night, will take effect Jan. 1, 2023, pending the approval of the state attorney general's office.In the ordinance, the City Council outlined some concerns about fur including risks to public health, environmental threats related to its production, and the roughly 100 million animals that are killed annually as part of the fur trade.