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Worldwide meat production and consumption are still generally on the rise…but drought and disease in 2011 have really slowed it down.

The big drought in the midwest has really slowed down growth, but so has the rising cost of livestock feed.

There are all sorts of figures going up and down at the same time, but in general, things aren't all that great.

Unless you're a vegetarian.

Tags: consumption, eat, food, global, meat, pig, production, vegetarian

Vampires weren't the only thing the cast and crew had to worry about on the set of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

While they had Abe Lincoln to keep the vampires from sinking their fangs into people, the production also needed

Tags: actor, alligator, animal, animals, film, filming, home, hunter, hurt, people, production, snake, snakes, trailer, water, whisperer

Awww! We couldn't be more thrilled for him!

Mickey Rourke is one of our FAVORITE celebrity pet-lovers, and was devastated in 2009 when his little Chihuahua friend Loki passed away at the age of 18, but during a press conference in Romania on Thursday, where he is filming Dead in Tombstone, revealed that he had adopted a new dog!

Tags: adoption, chihuahua, dead in tombstone, found, foxy, loki, mickey rourke, new pet, press conference, production, romania, stray

We don't know who looks cuter! Him or the pooch!

Looks as though Chuck Bass is making a new dog friend on the upcoming season of Gossip Girl, because Ed Westwick was spotted in full-character walking one ADORABLE looking little guy around Central Park Wednesday, while shooting a scene for the CW drama!

Ooh! Maybe this means he'll be getting his act together this time!

You can't take care of a pet unless you can take care of yourself!

Well - we hope so, anyway! Fingers crossed!

[Image via Buzz Foto.]

Tags: central park, chuck buss, dog friend, ed westwick, filming, gossip girl, production

So sad we missed this!

Last Saturday the Orpheum Theater in Downtown El Lay hosted the a one night all-star cast performance of CATS!

The show benefited Kitty Bungalow- Charm School for Wayward Cats, a Los Angeles non-profit cat rescue which uses the TNR (trap/neuter/release) method to aid feral cat colonies in the city and teaches feral kittens the socialization skills needed to find forever homes.

The stars that preformed in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical include:

David Burnham (from the Broadway production of Wicked)
James Crowmwell (Babe)
Keith David (NBC series The Cape)
Stephen Full (Disney XD series I’m in the Band)
Peter Gallagher (USA Network series Covert Affairs)
Ioan Gruffudd (Ringer, Fantastic Four)
Anna Gunn (AMC series Breaking Bad)
Jean Louise Kelly (Yes, Dear)
Kevin McHale (Glee)
Mandy Moore (So You Think You Can Dance! choreographer) and the So You Think You Can Dance! dancers
Hunter Parrish (Weeds)
Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers)
Paul Voght (MadTV)
Annie Wersching (24)
Fred Willard (Best in Show)
Owain Yoeman (The Mentalist)

Tags: cat, los angeles, mus, music, production, rescue, star

FYI: Foie gras is a food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. This fattening is typically achieved through gavage (force-feeding) corn.

Essentially the core of most foie gras wars stem from the fact that animal rights groups believe that the process of feeding ducks with a funnel inserted in the duck's esophagus is cruel. Proponents of the delicacy argue that ducks do not have a gag reflex and therefore feel no pain from the force feeding.

Popular chef, Linton Hopkins, recently scribed a passionate case for why he chooses to keep foie gras on the menu. He explains that he is deeply committed to sourcing cruelty-free products and has gone through extensive research to ensure that the foie gras he procures is from humanely-treated ducks.

In Brooklyn, Do or Dine restaurant offers foie gras donuts on the menu, a dish that prompted an online petition that has garnered over 1,000 signatures. The petition was started by a woman in Maine.

On the global level, the organizers of a food fair in Cologne, Germany held in October have decided to ban serving foie gras this year, after getting pressured by animal rights groups. Foie gras production is illegal in Germany, but consuming it is allowed. French foie gras producers are not happy about the ban; France's external trade minister said the boycott would have "global repercussions."

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: cruelty, duck, france, gross, illegal, pet, petition, production, research, restaurant

So sad.

Last night animal rights groups came to protest Kevin James' Zookeeper in honor of a giraffe who died on during production.

Tweet, the giraffe on the set who had also been forced to perform in Ace Ventura and a slew of Toys "R" Us commercials.

While giraffes in the wild can live into their mid 20s, Tweet was only 18 years old.

According to a whistleblower who contacted PETA, Tweet's premature death may have resulted from his eating pieces of the blue tarp that covered his enclosure. The whistleblower alleges that Tweet's owner and trainers were notified that the giraffe had been eating the tarp but that they did nothing about it.

RIP Tweet.

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: animal rights, death, died, giraffe, peta, production, protest, rip, trainer, zoo, zookeeper