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Seal hunting has long been known as a cruel practice by animal rights activists and conservationists.  Yesterday, the European Union took steps to ban seal products including “fur skins, organs, meat, oil and blubber.”  An exception is made for seal products originating from indigenous people and “marketed on a not-for-profit basis”.  The Environment News Service explains:

In its announcement of the new regulation, the Council said that several EU member states have adopted or intend to adopt legislation prohibiting trade in seal products, and the regulation “will harmonize rules concerning the marketing of seal products so as to avoid fragmentation and distortion of the internal market.”

We can't keep from using energy completely, but it is important to make sure everything is running as efficiently as possible. Today what we're referring to is your refrigerator.

Always plugged in, it's one of those appliances that you can never shut off. That makes it even more important an item to make sure it is pulling as little electricity as possible.

In order to see if you are letting money flow right out

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