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Brazil & New Zealand end livestock exports––for a while, anyhow

April 29, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Will ruling by Brazilian judge hold?  Will New Zealand agriculture minister keep his seat?  Will Australia ever do anything effective to stop live export disasters? SAO PAULO,  Brazil;  WELLINGTON, New Zealand––Upstaging a New Zealand ban on live cattle and sheep exports,  to take effect on April 30,  2023,  Brazilian federal judge Djalma Gomes on April […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Organizations, Politics Tagged With: Christopher Knaus, Cormo Express, Damien O’Connor, Djalma Gomes, Merritt Clifton, Sophie Kevany, Virginia Fallon

“Kangaroos are not shoes” campaign kicks back against ghost of Pelé

January 7, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Demand for soccer shoes helps to drive increased kangaroo culling             BETHESDA,  Maryland––When Pelé,  the most famous and perhaps the greatest soccer player of all time,  died on December 29,  2022,  almost nobody figuratively jumped on his grave. There was,  however,  one exception,  Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action president Wayne Pacelle. […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Politics, Sports, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Adolph Dassler, Center for a Humane Economy, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Merritt Clifton, Rudolph Dassler, Wayne Pacelle

Sodium nitrite, used to cure bacon, is introduced to kill feral pigs

July 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Panicked Australian & American pig producers push for the perfect poison to protect their investments Yellow phosphorus,  cyanide gas,  & Compound 1080 already flunked BRISBANE,  Queensland,  Australia––Japanese encephalitis,  a potentially deadly disease spread by mosquitoes who lay their eggs in pig effluent,  with onset symptoms resembling rabies in severe cases, “has been found for the […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Meat issues, Pigs, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Hoggone, Japanese encephalitis, Merritt Clifton, Queensland, Richard Gair, sodium nitrite

New Zealand ends live sheep & cattle exports by sea––two years from now

April 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Export directly to slaughter banned since 2008             WELLINGTON, NZ––New Zealand agriculture minister Damien O’Connor on April 14,  2021 announced a permanent halt to live animal exports by sea,  effective in 2023. O’Connor,  though his announcement was not a complete surprise,  left New Zealand agribusiness,  the international animal welfare community,  and rival nations in the […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Welfare Tagged With: Andrea Midgen, Damien O’Connor, Hmood Al-Khalaf, James Fyfe, Jed Goodfellow, Lynley Tulloch, Mark Harvey-Sutton, Merritt Clifton, Simone Clarke

Will Australia learn that “When the cat is away, the mice will play?”

April 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Be careful what you wish for” also pertains to mouse plague,  floods,  & infestations of snakes & spiders MELBOURNE,  SYDNEY––What stops a mouse plague? Driving 40,000 Australians from their homes in Victoria and New South Wales states,  while filling many of those homes with spiders and snakes seeking high ground,  the worst flooding in decades […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Invertebrates, Population control, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Leonie Thorne, Lucy Thackray, Matilda Boseley, Merritt Clifton, Sophie Riley, Steve Henry

Ship down with 5,867 cows & 42 crew renews protest against live export

September 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Had history of engine failure AMAMI OSHIMA ISLAND, Japan––The Gulf Livestock 1,  a Panamanian-flagged converted container ship carrying 5,867 two-year-old heifers and 43 human crew,  capsized and sank on September 2,  2020 in the East China Sea,  about 100 nautical miles west of Amami Oshima Island,  Japan,  the first survivor to be rescued told the Japanese […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Pacific rim Tagged With: Damien O’Connor, Lukas Orda, Marianne Macdonald, Merritt Clifton, Michael Lowcock, Sareno Edvarodo

Poisoning Australia in the name of wildlife recovery after bushfire losses

February 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

And kangaroos shot,  koala trees bulldozed             MELBOURNE,  CANBERRA, SYDNEY,  BRISBANE––Six months of bushfires ravaging Australian coastal forests and grasslands stretching into parts of the Outback are reportedly almost at an end. The last two dozen fires in New South Wales and a comparable number left in Victoria state are smoldering on at the lowest […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Conservation, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Invertebrates, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Vince, George Martin, Irena Ceranic, Lisa Chalk, Lisa Diggins, Manfred Zabinskas, Merritt Clifton, Michael Dahlstrom

Livestock shipment to Middle East goes sideways; to Hawaii, goes backward

December 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Drowned sheep & asphixiated cattle result from opposite approaches to maximizing profit MILILANI, Hawaii––Compared to the drowning deaths of more than 14,350 sheep on November 24,  2019 aboard the capsized Queen Hind in the port of Midia,  Romania,  the deaths of 21 Angus heifers aboard a Young Brothers barge en route from Honolulu to Kauai,  […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Romania, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom Tagged With: Bobby Farias, Carroll Cox, Jason Moniz, Jill Phipps, John Palmer Parker, Linda J. Cox, Wyatt Bechtel

Cruelty charges filed against Aussie live sheep shippers––a first!

August 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Shipping company already lost live export license             PERTH,  Australia––Cruelty charges were on July 31,  2019 filed against two former directors of the live animal shipping company Emanuel Exports over the August 2017 deaths of more than 2,400 sheep from heat stress aboard the Awassi Express.             The sheep were in transit to slaughter in […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Calla Wahlquist, Graham Daws, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stanton, Nicholas Daws

Cassowary victim had helped to spur ostrich-&-emu boom

April 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“See the gentle cassowary On the plains of Timbuktu Eating up the missionary Hat and coat and hymn-book too.” Attributed to Theodore Hook  (1788-1841)             HIGH SPRINGS,  Florida––Remembering the cassowary rhyme from childhood,  and that “Cassowaries are found mainly in Australia and New Guinea.  Never in Africa!”,  International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal was […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, North Africa, Other, Poultry, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Christopher Kofron, Darren Naish, Marvin Hajos, Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal, Theodore Hook

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