Virginia spa employs tiny carp on pedicure clients. The fish are called garra rufa, or, more commonly, doctor fish, and have been used for similar treatments in Turkey and other Asian countries. While the procedure reeks of novelty appeal, the fish apparently do a pretty bang up job, as one customer enthusiastically declared it “the best pedicure I ever had.” Forcing fish to eat people’s calluses for no pay in sweatshop conditions…sounds like a case for PETA.

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The Best Links:

1. Fish pedicures: Carp rid human feet of scaly skin
2. Spa Website
3. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

SPORTS BUZZ: The name of the horse that was euthanized at the Kentucky Derby after breaking two ankles while crossing the finish line in second place. Politicos are drawing parallels between Hillary Clinton’s tragic horse pick and the Presidential race.

The Best Links:

1. Eight Belles’ Final Agonizing Minutes
2. While Human Athletes Can Choose to Destroy Themselves, Their Animal Counterparts Can’t
3. YouTube - Eight Belles is euthanized at 134th Kentucky Derby
4. Did Hillary Kill Eight Belles?
5. Video: Eight Belles’ Traner Defends Jockey’s Conduct
6. PETA Wants Jockey of Euthanized Horse Suspended, Horse Racing to Be Safer
7. Eight Belles’ Jockey Gabriel Saez Should Be Euthanized Himself
8. Horse Racing Isn’t Animal Abuse
9. The Symbolism Behind Hillary’s Horse Getting Euthanized?

SCIENCE BUZZ: PETA is offering $1 million to anyone who can bring lab-made meat to the market by 2012. That’s right: They want to spare animals via man-made meat. Of course, the ability to grow meat in the lab, providing the FDA would approve it, would be so wildly lucrative that $1 million would seem like a pittance in comparison.

The Best Links:

1. “Eating meat and eating animals used to be the same thing.”
2. Why PETA’s $1 Million Prize is B.S.
3. The Details of PETA’s Million-Dollar In Vitro Meat Prize
4. Wait, Didn’t PETA Attack KFC for Allegedly Growing Chicken in the Lab?