No animals other than bats & humans are known to get COVID-19, but millions are affected by the human response WASHINGTON D.C.––Animals and animal-related projects from Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo to National Institutes of Health-funded laboratories are feeling the impact of the international COVID-19 scare underway throughout early 2020, […]
COVID-19 & “The Next Big One”: Spillover revisited
Science writer David Quammen saw COVID-19 coming COVID-19, though renamed twice just in the first few months of 2020, “is not as novel as you might think,” explained veteran science writer David Quammen in the January 28, 2020 edition of The New York Times. Quammen, 72, was uniquely positioned to comment, not only because he […]
COVID-19: What can wildlife management teach us?
No, it is not “shoot the victims”! SEATTLE––Perhaps the most startling statistic pertaining to the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is the statistic almost nobody mentions: the ratio of compensatory versus additive mortality. What’s that? It is not that as of March 10, 2020 there are still only about 140,000 COVID-19 cases of […]
Jill Biden upstages vegans’ attempt to upstage husband Joe
Kept “Let Dairy Die!” signs from grabbing more than a split second of TV time LOS ANGELES––Michael Bloomberg and spokespersons for Direct Action Everywhere sounded much like each other on March 4, 2020, congratulating themselves for fiascos that respectively knocked Bloomberg out of the U.S. presidential race and made a national heroine of Jill Biden, […]
Wild animals off market in China: crackdown on coronavirus
“Huge hidden dangers to public health & safety” BEIJING, China––Responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus, which has now killed nearly 2,600 people worldwide, the 170-member National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the top legislative body in China, on February 24, 2020 provisionally banned all consumption of wildlife and trade in wild-caught species, other than fish. Announced […]
Miyoko’s taking the case for vegan cheese to the people as well as the court
Will grill vegan cheese sandwiches as well as California Department of Food & Agriculture officials PETALUMA, California––Taking the case for plant-based cheese products straight to the people, as well as to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Miyoko’s Creamery on March 4, 2020 intends to begin distributing 15,000 free vegan cheddar and pepperjack […]
Science races law to end culling seven billion male chicks a year
No more fingers up chicks’ anal vents PARIS, France; BERLIN, Germany––Racing to appear to be ahead of egg industry science, French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume on January 28, 2020 announced that his administration would ban mass culling of male chicks and castration of piglets without anesthetic. “From the end of 2021, nothing will be […]
Wet markets or Walmart? Animal consumption & the coronavirus
by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns Apart from a small but perhaps widening circle of optimism, it is hard to figure whether progress for farmed animals is actually happening in modern society. While it is great to see more plant-based products in local supermarkets, the amount of meat displayed in the aisles has […]
Calf massacre looms in Ireland: dairy sales up, beef sales drop
“Every sperm is sacred,” as are profits, but calf welfare is not DUBLIN, Ireland––Irish dairy farmers, having bred an expected 800,000 more bull calves to be born in spring 2020 than they can profitably sell in a contracting global beef market, may resort to shooting hundreds of thousands at birth, Guardian newspapers reporters Sophie Kevany […]
Sperm-sorting comes to India through cow-loving Modi government
Slippery business may stop the bull calf surplus NEW DELHI, India––Cracking down hard against illegal cattle slaughter and exports to slaughter, while boosting milk production, the Hindi nationalist Nahendra Modi regime ruling India since 2014 caused the perennial Indian bull calf surplus to explode. Now, however, the Modi government has reportedly […]
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