Pumas do not hunt kangaroos anyhow BEAVERTON, Oregon––Pumas, native to almost all of the Americas, do not hunt kangaroos, native only to Australia. Neither will kangaroos be hunted any longer to supply the German sportswear manufacturer Puma with their hides, the Puma company has announced. Nor will kangaroo hides be impaled on Nike spikes, the […]
Smelling rats after alleged major mink release in Van Wert, Ohio
The numbers & time frame don’t add up, & neither does the money VAN WERT, Ohio––Something happened at a mink farm here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, despite saturation coverage by both local and national media. Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach announced on November 15, 2022 that his office “is investigating a […]
Russian invasion of Ukraine is killing the trapped fur trade too
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 […]
Native opposition to fur farming joins COVID-19 to kill the B.C. mink industry
British Columbia government accepts recommendation of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs VICTORIA, B.C.––British Columbia agriculture minister Lana Popham on November 5, 2021 made British Columbia the first jurisdiction in North America to announce a permanent ban on mink farming. In so doing, Popham responded, six months later, to an April 6, 2021 urgent […]
COVID-19 skins fur trade: Ireland bans fur farming; Finland vaccinates mink
Ireland becomes 15th European Union nation to ban or phase out the mink industry DUBLIN, HELSINKI––Responding to continuing discoveries of the COVID-19 coronavirus in factory-farmed mink, the government of the Republic of Ireland has elected to ban fur faming. The Finnish Food Authority, by contrast, is experimentally vaccinating farmed mink in hopes fur demand […]
Chinchilla breeder fined $18,000 & loses USDA license to supply laboratories
A small animal used in labs, but a huge step for Animal Welfare Act enforcement WASHINGTON D.C.; ROCHESTER, Minnesota––Chinchillas are very small and soft, so small that you could hold one in the palm of your hand, so soft that they have been exploited for their fur for centuries, even though from 100 to 200 […]
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,” […]
Israel “fur ban” is among last gasps of “lame duck” Netanyahu regime
Ban to take effect––if it ever does––six months after Netanyahu government leaves office JERUSALEM, Israel––Israeli environmental protection minister Gila Gamliel, appointed on May 17, 2020 by “lame duck” prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on June 9, 2021 capped her year in office by signing a regulatory amendment that bans the sale of fur by the […]
Aloha Rodeo: animal advocates, Disney, & Cheyenne showdown
Will forthcoming film “glorify steer roping” & help to revive rodeo, or help to finish it? UPDATE: The online entertainment periodical Deadline on May 18, 2021 announced that it had “learned that Disney is no longer moving forward with the [Aloha Rodeo] project.” CHEYENNE, Wyoming––Walt Disney Inc., Cheyenne Frontier Days, and a coalition of animal […]
Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect
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 […]
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