The Black Sea was hard habitat for dolphins even before the shooting started ISTANBUL, Turkey––That war kills animals as well as humans is scarcely in doubt, but whether war is worse than peace for Black Sea dolphins may be disputed. Nearly three months after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 2022, evidence is surfacing along […]
Israeli vegan honey could leave Russia & Ukraine holding the honey bucket
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
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 […]
Mad Russians overrun Ukraine rabies belt; refugee canines flee west
Invasion stops progress against fox rabies outbreak raging since 2004 KHARKIV, Ukraine; ATLANTA, Georgia; SURPRISE, Arizona––The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] web site has quietly announced, without an accompanying media release, that it “is working to expedite import permit requests for dogs that originate in Ukraine and surrounding countries for persons wishing […]
Banning U.S. imports of Russian fish could help Ukraine & help the fish too
Why was the U.S. still buying Russian fish while boycotting Russian oil, gas, coal, & even vodka? WASHINGTON D.C.––Fish were the last major category of U.S. imports from Russia not yet embargoed by the U.S. government in protest of the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden on March 8, 2022 […]
Russians kill Ukrainian animal rescue volunteers, bomb & starve shelters
Anastasiia Yalanskaya & two others shot after delivering food to dog shelter near battle front KYIV, Ukraine––Anastasiia Yalanskaya, 26, on March 4, 2022 became the second animal advocate known to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yalanskaya, 26, “was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha,” 18 miles northwest of Kyiv, […]
“Spay-It-Forward” says Dr. Jeff, Rocky Mountain Vet
Veterinarian Jeff Young updates an idea from Menander, Ben Franklin, & Ralph Waldo Emerson DENVER, Colorado––Jeff Young, DVM, star of the reality TV show Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, reaching more than a million viewers per episode since 2015, wants to sell the veterinary and humane communities on the concept he calls Spay-It-Forward. Young, an animal control officer […]
Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?
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,” […]
Sheep & cattle stranded at sea by Suez Canal blockage are moving again
3,000-year-old livestock shipping route opened by Pharoahs is unblocked ISMAILIA, Egypt––Tens of thousands of sheep, cattle, and other live animals stranded for up to six days aboard more than 20 transport vessels are moving again through the Suez Canal, as of March 29, 2021. Egyptian Lieutenant General Osama Rabei, heading the Suez Canal Authority, […]
How ancient bison survived in the land & times of Good King Wenceslaus
Wenceslaus, 911-935, left bison alone. Successors alternately hunted & protected them. BIALOWIEZA FOREST, Poland––European wood bison, also called wisent, at risk of extinction for far longer than their North American cousins, are no longer “vulnerable,” and have accordingly been removed from the “Red List” maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The […]
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