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“Stamping out” fails again to stop bird flu in South Korea

June 20, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Birds throughout the nation may be at risk             DAEGU, South Korea––Less than six months after South Korea killed 13.8 million poultry to try to stop the spread of the H5N8 avian flu, cases have reappeared in three central and southern provinces, whetting fears that farmed birds throughout the nation may be at risk. The […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Pacific rim, South Korea Tagged With: H5N1, H5N8

Threat to dogs from newly discovered rabies strain?

May 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Taiwan ferret badger rabies is new to science             TAIPEI, Taiwan––Can dogs incubate and transmit Taiwan ferret badger rabies? Would a mutant form of ferret badger rabies specific to dogs have the exceptionally long latency time that it apparently has in ferret badgers? If so, this could exponentially increase the threat of rabies from dogs. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Pacific rim, Rabies, Taiwan Tagged With: ferret badgers, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Sean McCormack

Indictment recommended in South Korean dog meat case

April 15, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Could bring precedent-setting prosecution BUSAN,  South Korea––A potentially precedent-setting criminal prosecution of a South Korean dog meat vendor may be imminent,   Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals translator April Kim posted to the Asia Animal Protection Network on April 13,  2014. On February 9,  2014,  Kim recounted,  translating from KAPCA statements originally […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Pacific rim, South Korea, Uses of dogs Tagged With: April Kim, Busan, KAPCA, Merritt Clifton

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

International Court of Justice rules against Japanese “research” whaling

April 3, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Judgment stipulates that it is “final,  without appeal and binding” DEN HAAG,  Nederlands––The 16-member International Court of Justice,  the chief judicial organ of the United Nations,  on March 31,  2014 ruled by a vote of 12-4 that Japan “shall revoke any extant authorization,  permit or licence granted” to allow whaling in the Antarctic region,  “and […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Japan, Marine life, Pacific rim, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Pete Bethune

Police respond––slowly––to complaints about dog slaughter in South Korea

March 17, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Police presence temporarily interrupted  business                 BUSAN,  South Korea––Attempting to invoke lightly enforced existing laws to try to close the Gupo and Nopodong live markets in Busan,  South Korea,  the Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was on February 9,  2014 disappointed by a purportedly slow […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Pacific rim, South Korea, Uses of dogs Tagged With: April Kim, KAPCA, Merritt Clifton

Newly found ferret badger rabies strain raises concern about dogs

October 8, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

First recognized in July 2013 TAIPEI,  Taiwan––A new rabies strain identified in Taiwanese ferret badgers may have the potential to exponentially increase the risk of rabies transmission by dogs.  But even if the new rabies strain does not behave in dogs as it does among ferret badgers,  it has ignited unprecedented public controversy in Taiwan […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Pacific rim, Rabies, Taiwan

Food Security & Farm Animal Welfare by Sofia Parente [WSPA] and Heleen van de Weerd [CIWF]

April 11, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Free 20-page download from ciwf.org/foodsecurity Based on: The Impact of Industrial Grain Fed Livestock Production on Food Security:  an extended  literature review,  by Karl-Heinz Erb,   Andreas Mayer,   Thomas Kastner,  Kristine-Elena Sallet,   and Helmut Haberl,  Institute of Social Ecology,  Vienna;  free 90-page download from:  http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1818.htm Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Having commissioned a 90-page analysis of The Impact […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Central Asia, China, Culture & Animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, North Africa, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: CIWF, Lester Brown, WSPA

South Korea kills 1.6 million pigs,  cattle,  & dogs in fight against foot and mouth disease

January 20, 2011 By Merritt Clifton

Water taps spat blood          SEOUL––Water taps spat blood on New Year’s Day 2011 in Paju,  Gyeonggi Province,  South Korea,  “just one day after some of nearly 1,000 pigs within a 500-meter radius of a foot-and-mouth-hit livestock farm were buried alive to prevent further spread of the disease,”  reported Park Si-soo of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Pacific rim, South Korea Tagged With: Foot-and-mouth disease

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