by Alexandra Semyonova The politics of assembling the present Dutch coalition government were expected to put 100 new “animal cops” on the beat in the Netherlands by the end of 2011, and to eventually increase the Dutch animal police force to 500 officers, according to election […]
Denmark bans slaughter without pre-stunning
“Animal rights come before religion” COPENHAGEN––Telling the Danish TV2 network audience that “Animal rights come before religion,” Denmark minister for agriculture and food Dan Jorgensen banned livestock slaughter without pre-stunning, effective on February 17, 2014. Coinciding with outrage over the killing of a “genetically redundant” young giraffe at the Copenhagen […]
RSPCA of England & Wales caught in a crossfire
Hunters & farmers on one side, “no kill” militants on the other LONDON––The Royal SPCA of England & Wales, amid campaigns seeking to strip it of the prosecution authority it has exercised since 1824 and the royal charter it has held since 1840, has found itself caught […]
Public moral concerns warrant EU seal product import ban, rules WTO
Beginning of the end for the Atlantic Canada seal hunt? BRUSSELS––The World Trade Organization on November 25, 2013 upheld most of the 2009 European Union ban on the import of seal products, overturning the ban only when applied to “seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit or indigenous communities and hunts conducted for marine […]
Georgia Aquarium appeals NOAA ruling against proposed first beluga whale imports since 1992
Wants to import whales from Russia ATLANTA––The Georgia Aquarium on September 30, 2013 appealed an August 6, 2013 ruling by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration that it had not satisfied the requirements to import 18 beluga whales from Russia. The appeal put the future of beluga whale exhibition before the U.S. District Court in […]
Dutch to push “vaccination for life” ––may end culls of healthy livestock
May mean a million fewer pigs & cattle per year are raised for slaughter––plus multi-millions of poultry DEN HAAG––Dutch state secretary of economic affairs Sharon A.M. Dijksma on June 4, 2013 committed the Netherlands to trying to reverse European Union and other international policies which require culling livestock who have been exposed to contagious diseases […]
German zoo staff convicted of cruelty for killing hybrid tigers
Director and three employees fined MAGDEBURG, Germany––Magdeburg Zoo director Kai Parret and three members of the zoo staff were on June 17, 2010 convicted of cruelty for killing three tiger cubs at birth in May 2008 because their father was found to be a hybrid of the Siberian and Sumatran tiger subspecies. A fine of […]
Russia halts seal hunt
“This bloody hunting is from now on banned” MOSCOW, OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11, 2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country, as in most developed countries,” Trutnyev […]