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Russian invasion of Ukraine is killing the trapped fur trade too

April 5, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: International Wildlife Coalition, Kopenhagen Fur Center, Mark Downey, Merritt Clifton, North Bay Fur Harvesters Auction, Stephen Best

Native opposition to fur farming joins COVID-19 to kill the B.C. mink industry

November 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Bonnie Henry, Don Tom, Joe Clark, Judy Wilson, Lana Popham, Merritt Clifton, Stewart Phillip, Thomas Grey & Company, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

COVID-19 skins fur trade: Ireland bans fur farming; Finland vaccinates mink

October 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: Charlie McConalogue, John Carmody, Merritt Clifton

Chinchilla breeder fined $18,000 & loses USDA license to supply laboratories

October 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Other species, Regulation, Science, USA

Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?

August 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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,”  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Spain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Joan Schaffner, Karen Manci, Kate Golden, Kitty Block, Meg Kinnard, Merritt Clifton, Nancy Mace, Rosa DeLauro, Sara Amundson

Israel “fur ban” is among last gasps of “lame duck” Netanyahu regime

June 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Israel, Judaism, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gila Gamliel, Jane Halevy, Merritt Clifton

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? 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 […]

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

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