Fear of science & change will be weapons for animal industries trying to save their rump roasts CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––“Do not assume that doing the best science possible will insulate you from criticism,” AquaBounty Technologies chief executive Ronald L. Stotish warned the New Harvest 2018 conference on “cellular agriculture,” toward the end of two days […]
Why mink releases don’t stop fur farm cruelty
Few industries are more cruel than the fur trade, but some anti-fur tactics take matters from bad to worse OSLO, Norway; SEATTLE, Washington––The Norwegian Court of Appeals on October 18, 2017 ordered four members of the anti-fur organization Nettverk for Dyrs Frihet (Network for Animal Freedom) to pay damages amounting to 21,000 euro, plus […]
Stink over conditions at skunk & ferret “fur farm”
SAEN seeks Animal Welfare Act charges against “fur farm” that appears to breed animals mostly for laboratories & the pet trade NEW SHARON, Iowa––If the 85-year-old Ruby Fur Farm was just a fur farm, producing mink or fox pelts for the garment industry, it would not be subject to unannounced visits from the USDA […]
Could non-leather Zoa make the majors in sports before fashion?
Two high-tech sporting goods pioneers think so COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.; CHENNAI, India––If sports are the testing ground for style, then Modern Meadow Inc., makers of Zoa brand cultured leather, should be pleased as punch with reader response to the ANIMALS 24-7 feature article No animals skinned to make new Zoa “biofabricated” leather, published on October 9, 2017. […]
No animals skinned to make new Zoa “biofabricated” leather
Your MoMA: proto-Zoa challenges New York leather scene NEW YORK, N.Y.––Can the proto-Zoa leather-like product on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art until January 28, 2018 replace leather derived from animals? MoMA, as the Museum of Modern Art has long been nicknamed, seems to think so. And so do high-rolling entrepreneurs who have […]
Under the Skin: How ejiao threatens the common ass
The Donkey Sanctuary saddles up Free download from https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/under-the-skin/full-report Reviewed by Merritt Clifton BEIJING––Can demand for a commodity that constitutes only one ten-thousandth of the global market for traditional Chinese medicine really pose what Donkey Rescue World blogger David C. Duncan calls “an existential threat” to barnyard animals as abundant worldwide as donkeys? This is […]
“Cargo cult” politics make caribou the bison of the Canadian North
Far North learns the hard way that climate & geography can’t prevent effects of global warming EDMONTON––Neither cold and wind, short summers and seemingly endless winter, voracious summer mosquitoes and blackflies, nor the distance from urban civilization present the harshest of the many harsh realities currently facing the Canadian Far North. Rather, the Far […]
Fur farm releases in China reflect falling fur demand worldwide
Raccoon dogs freed twice in eight months BEIJING, China––For the second time in eight months a Chinese fur farmer appears to have released his animals in response to three years of steeply falling pelt prices and fur garment demand worldwide, with no upturn in sight. Reported the Beijing Daily News on April 13, […]
Will new Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau be “Justin other bad guy” for animals?
Stephen Harper government, notorious for defense of Atlantic Canada seal hunt, ousted after 10 years OTTAWA, VANCOUVER––“The reign of the Stephen Harper government has collapsed,” exulted Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals executive director Lesley Fox on October 20, 2015, the morning after Harper’s 10-year Conservative Party of Canada regime collapsed in the 2015 […]
Smart money bets on bio-cultured meat
Facebook & Google financiers say animals are not the future of agribusiness BROOKLYN, SAN FRANCISCO, HONG KONG––Some leading edge investors in agribusiness with long successful histories are betting big-time that the future of animal agriculture will no longer involve raising animals. Li Ka-Shing, for example, the richest man in Asia, with net worth of […]