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Aloha Rodeo: animal advocates, Disney, & Cheyenne showdown

March 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Will forthcoming film “glorify steer roping” & help to revive rodeo,  or help to finish it? CHEYENNE,  Wyoming––Walt Disney Inc.,  Cheyenne Frontier Days,  and a coalition of animal advocacy groups headed by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] may be headed toward the highest-profile showdown at the 123-year-old Frontier Days rodeo since Hawaiian paniolos Eben […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Archie Kaaua, Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, David Wolman, Eben Parker “Ben” Low, Gavin Ehringer, Glenn Close, Ikua Purdy, Julian Smith, Lane Frost, Merritt Clifton, Roy Edward Disney, Walt Disney

Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect

March 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Forthcoming World Health Organization report is expected to confirm Chinese investigators’ suspicions          BEIJING, BOSTON, WUHAN––Will a World Health Organization report expected to be released within days indict the Chinese mink industry for infecting the world with COVID-19?          Beijing University researchers have already suspected for more than a year that mink farming was likely […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Science, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Dan Silver, Ecohealth Alliance, Linfa Wang, Merritt Clifton, Michaeleen Doucleff, Peter Daszak

End to Irish & Greek mink farming expected after Danish & Dutch culls

November 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Irish chief medical officer calls for mink cull as “a matter of urgency”             LIMERICK, COPENHAGEN––Not even Guinness bottle caps are flipping,  let alone champagne corks popping,  in celebration of the anticipated imminent end of mink breeding in Ireland,  Denmark,  the Netherlands,  Italy,  Poland, France,  and perhaps even Greece and Spain. Mink massacres underway in […]

Filed Under: Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: John Carmody, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen, Mogens Jensen, Redmond O’Hanlon, Tony Holohan

Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.

October 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch findings come as COVID-19 hits mink farms & humans in Wisconsin & Utah             GREEN BAY, Wisconsin;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah––Which came first,  the COVID-19 coronavirus infecting humans,  or infecting mink? No one right now knows for sure whether mink might have been the incubator species through which COVID-19 passed from horseshoe bats in […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Disease, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tagged With: Darlene Konkle, Dean Taylor, Hope Kirwan, Jacob Klopfenstein, JoNel Aleccia, Merritt Clifton, Tyler Clifford

Mink & pig massacres due to COVID-19 may help to kill fur & pork industries too

June 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Netherlands may end fur farming four years before ban takes effect LIMBURG,  Netherlands;  SIOUX CITY, Iowa––The good news,  if it could be called that,  about the scheduled massacre of as many as 30,000 ranched mink on June 6,  2020 is that it may put 10 mink farms owned by eight companies permanently out of business,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs Tagged With: Carola Schouten, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Glenn Greenwald, Hugo DeYoung, Merritt Clifton, Steve King

The minks’ jinx: is COVID-19 an exploited species’ revenge?

May 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch disclose second case of mink-to-human COVID-19 transmission             WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands;  WUHAN, China––“A second case has become known on one of the infected mink farms where,  most likely,  SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19]passed from mink to human,”  Dutch minister of health Hugo DeYoung and minister of agriculture Carola Schouten jointly advised the Dutch parliament on May 25, 2020. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Carola Schouten, Donald Trump, Hugo DeYoung, Merritt Clifton, Peter Li, Wang Yanyi

“That touch of mink” & COVID-19: Dutch outbreak hints mink may be host

May 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Fur farming to end in The Netherlands by 2024 WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands––The discovery that ranched mink can become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus may lend momentum to the Dutch national plan to phase out mink farming entirely by 2024. Concern that mink themselves might become a COVID-19 reservoir may also dampen Chinese enthusiasm for rebuilding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, China, Denmark, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Carola Schouten, Doris Day, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Soren Alexandersen, Teresa Telecky

Why U.S. furriers don’t advertise much any more

December 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Mink coat ads vanish from newsprint  SACRAMENTO,  California––A furrier somewhere in the U.S. may yet buy a page of advertising,  in what little remains of 2019,  in one of the thousands of newspapers that are electronically searchable at www.NewspaperArchive.com. As of December 29,  2019,  however,  the year appeared to be ending without a single NewspaperArchive […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Austria, Belgium, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Netherlands, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Douglas Lawson, Gavin Newsom, Karl Lagerfeld, Merritt Clifton, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Carroll

Suspect in faux fur-related stabbing previously tried to hire a killer

November 23, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Third alleged attempt to kill a fur-wearer since 2012             CLEVELAND HEIGHTS,  Ohio––Unable to hire a hit man to kill “someone who is wearing fur” in 2012,  Meredith Marie Lowell,  35,  on November 20,  2019 apparently decided to try to do the killing herself––for the second time in less than a year. Cleveland Heights police […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Anne Mecklenburg, Emerson Lowell, Jeffrey F. Lowell, Jessica MacMillan, Leslie Powers, Madlen Lowell, Meredith Marie Lowell, Merritt Clifton, Patrica Gaughan, Tom Cleary, Whitney Lowell

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