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Are sick factory-farmed salmon running amok in Puget Sound?

February 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Wild Fish Conservancy study suggests yes SEATTLE,  Washington––Are salmon throughout the Pacific Northwest at risk from a crippling disease spread by estimated 162,000 hatchery-bred Atlantic salmon who on August 20,  2017 made a jailbreak from a ruptured sea pen at Cypress Island in Puget Sound? If so,  will further losses to the already overfished wild salmon […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Scotland, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Cooke Aquaculture, John Robins, Kurt Beardslee, Ledet's Louisiana Seafood, Lynda V. Mapes, Merritt Clifton, Tristan Baurick

Brush possum killings build momentum for “boycott New Zealand” drive

August 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Coercing children to kill possums oversteps international bounds          WELLINGTON,  New Zealand––If New Zealand conservation minister Maggie Barry held the portfolios for attracting tourism and economic development instead,  she might be less notoriously dismissive of increasing international humane concern about the outcomes of the scheme she announced in 2015 to rid the nation of “invasive” […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Organizations, Sheep & goats, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill Benfield, Edward Howe Forbush, Jasmin de Boo, Jules Howard, Leonard Cockayne, Lynley Tullock, Maggie Barry, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton

The animal issue that made Donald Trump a presidential candidate

September 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  what is bio-xenophobia? (Part I of a four-part series.  See also How an ant doctor came to be driving public policy; How the Twin Towers fell on animals too;  and Questioning the claims of “crisis.”) With just six weeks left of the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign season,  xenophobia,  the fear of foreigners,  has thus far […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food security, Germany, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Insects, Isles, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Other animals & science topics, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, Sheep & goats, The Americas, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, Hillary Clinton, Merritt Clifton, Ted Cruz

“Confessions of a vegan” author Sam de Brito, 46

October 14, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Cause of death unknown Sam de Brito,  46,  an internationally syndicated author and columnist known for acerbic comments about vegetarians and vegans before becoming a vegan himself,  was found dead on October 12,  2015 at his home in North Bondi,  a suburb of Sydney,  New South Wales,  Australia. The cause of death was not immediately […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Politics, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: All Men Are Liars, Jo Frederik, Merritt Clifton, Phil Wollen

Fallen crane & stampede take spotlight from haj animal victims

September 29, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

At least 900,000 animals killed among 24 nations          RIYADH,  Saudi Arabia––After decades of global controversy over animal transport and slaughter in connection with Eid al Adha sacrificial rites,  the animal victims of the 2015 Islamic pilgrimage season went almost unnoticed amid furor over human victims. The start of the pilgrimage season,   called the haj […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bangladesh, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Ethiopia, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Judaism, Kenya, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Malaysia, Meat issues, Mediterranean, North Africa, Organizations, Other, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Akif Kichloo, Eid al Adha, haj, Lyn White, Mecca, Merritt Clifton, Mohammed, Qurbani, Riyadh

Did botched pre-Ramadan sheep shipment start an epidemic?

June 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Georgian officials deny disease outbreak ever occurred TBILISI, Georgia––How many sheep were casualties of a botched pre-Ramadan live transport from the nation of Georgia to Saudi Arabia and Jordan in late May 2015? The authentic toll might never be known. Exported for ritual sacrifice, the sheep instead fell ill in transit, were refused at several ports, […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid, Feast of Atonement, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ramadan

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester R. Brown

April 11, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Earth Policy Institute (1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 403, Washington, DC 20036), 2012. 141 pages, paperback. $15.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Publicity materials for Full Planet,  Empty Plates credit Lester R. Brown with producing more than 50 books, including the annual Worldwatch reports he edited for 30 years as founder of the Worldwatch Institute. Leaving the Worldwatch Institute in […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, China, Culture & Animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, North Africa, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: food security, Lester R. Brown, Merritt Clifton

Videotaped Eid al Adha slaughter cruelty in Gaza shocks Australia

November 19, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Damning evidence of failure of Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System          GAZA,  CANBERRA––Amateur videos posted to social media by witnesses to Eid al Adha slaughters in Gaza on October 15,  2013 appear to have provided some of the most damning evidence yet of the failure of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Live transport, Other, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Animals Australia, Eid al Adha

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