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Russian invasion of Ukraine is killing the trapped fur trade too

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Already down allegedly due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021,  fur sales crash at first pelt auctions of 2022             NORTH BAY,  Ontario––North Bay Fur Harvesters Auction chief executive Mark Downey blames the Russian invasion of Ukraine for what appear to be the most depressed trapped fur pelt sales since 1999. Founded in 1991,  the […]

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 […]

Mad Russians overrun Ukraine rabies belt; refugee canines flee west

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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

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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

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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,  […]

John F. Robins of Animal Concern Scotland on fundraising & parasites

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“John Robins has not been following medical advice & taking things easy” Editors’ note:  John Frederick Robins,  64,  probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history,  despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,”  did not shuffle off after all,  despite the September 25,  2021 ANIMALS 24-7 headline “Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after […]

Cane Corso:  A pit bull by any other name

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Cane Corso history is not what the “dog literature” says OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Was Gladys,  the star rescue dog who killed volunteer Pam Robb on February 17,  2022,  really a Cane Corso and not,  as ANIMALS 24-7 reported,  a “supersized pit bull”? Or is “Cane Corso” really just a sanitized and gentrified name for a common […]

Drug money crushes Swiss proposed ban on animal use in laboratories

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Pharmaceutical industry tries to drive stake through the heart of the ghost of Hans Ruesch             ZURICH,  Switzerland––Voters in Switzerland on February 13,  2022 crushed a proposed national ban on biomedical research using either animal or human subjects by a margin of 21% for,  79% against. Switzerland has some of the strongest animal protection laws […]

Iceland fisheries minister hints she may pull the plug on whaling

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But whaling baron Kristján Loftsson, 80,  will not go down without a fight REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Iceland minister of food,  agriculture,  and fisheries Svandis Svavarsdottir on February 4,  2022 indicated in a guest column for the newspaper and news web site Morgunblaðið that she may pull the plug on the nearly moribund Icelandic whaling industry. But Kristján Loftsson, […]