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Israeli vegan honey could leave Russia & Ukraine holding the honey bucket

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Lab-produced honey goes into industrial-scale production just as global supply from bees is disrupted by Putin’s War             JERUSALEM, Israel––Regardless of whether Ukraine staves off the Russian invasion or suffers the genocide threatened by Russian use of heavy weapons against civilian targets,  the biggest and perhaps only winner of what is now known worldwide as […]

H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge

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Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide             AMES,  Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds,  wild or domestic,  to beware of the first outbreak of High […]

(How) does salmonella grow on trees? Answer: it doesn’t, by Karen Davis, Ph.D.

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But new findings confirm that COVID-19 and salmonella outbreaks––and most other zoonotic diseases––share a common source  Editors’ note:            On January 31,  2020,  two years plus a month ago,  United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis contributed the first ANIMALS 24-7 coverage of the global COVID-19 pandemic,  Wet markets or Walmart? Animal consumption & the coronavirus. […]

Richard Leakey, 77, saved elephants & found missing links to veg past

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Richard Leakey both extended human history backward & helped Kenyan wildlife survive into the future NAIROBI, Kenya––Richard Erskine Frere Leakey,  77,  known to the world as simply Richard Leakey,  died on January 2,  2022,  in Nairobi,  the Kenyan capital city and his home for most of his life. Born in Nairobi on December 19,  1944,  […]

“Ivory Queen” wins appeal––and gets 15 years again

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But elephant poachers featured in Leonardo DiCaprio film are released due to faulty prosecutions             DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania––The Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court on December 8,  2021 re-sentenced “Ivory Queen” Yang Feng Glan and two alleged Tanzanian co-conspirators to 15 years imprisonment each for illegally trafficking 860 elephant tusks. (See “Ivory queen” sentence helps to […]

Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

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Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,”  specifically methane emitted by cattle,  “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,”  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021,  during the run-up to the 2021 […]

The Supremacist Syndrome, by Peter Marsh

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How Domination Underpins Slavery, Genocide, the Exploitation of Women, & the Maltreatment of Animals Lantern Publishing & Media,  128 Second Place,  Brooklyn,  NY 11231;  www.lanternpm.org. Available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Many ANIMALS 24-7 readers will remember Supremacist Syndrome author and New Hampshire attorney Peter Marsh as an occasional presenter […]

Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?

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Some in the U.S. mink industry see COVID-19 as a growth opportunity  WASHINGTON D.C.––Will the COVID-19 delta variant finally kill mink farming in the U.S.,  after COVID-19 in all forms has killed more than 633,000 Americans? Or will HR 4310,  dubbed the MINKS Act as acronym for “Minks in Narrowly Kept Spaces Are Superspreaders Act,”  […]

South Africa debates end to “canned lion” industry & ivory sales

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“High-Level Panel Report on Lions, Rhinos, Elephants & Leopards” recommends turnabout in national wildlife policy             JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––A South African government wildlife policy study recommends an end to breeding captive lions for cub-petting, trophy shoots of captive-bred and raised lions,  and exports of lion bones for use in traditional Chinese medicine. The paper also […]

Factory-farmed pigs get a break from vaccine breakthrough

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For factory-farmed pigs,  avoiding African swine fever may be about as good as the grim news gets GREENPORT, New York––With all eyes on the progress of vaccination against the global COVID-19 pandemic,  which has to date killed nearly 3.5 million people,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service in early May quietly announced a breakthrough […]