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Giving you one more chance: USDA-APHIS says speak now or hold the pieces

June 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Feds want your input on Animal Welfare Act enforcement & much,  much more;  comment period extended another 30 days WASHINGTON D.C.––”In response to requests, stakeholders will have an additional 30 days to share their thoughts on the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) strategic plan to guide the […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feral animals, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Poultry, Slaughter, Slaughter, Urban wildlife, USA, Welfare, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Welfare Act, Horse Protection Act, Merritt Clifton, Sharla M. Jennings, Wildlife Services

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

“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

People who buy meat from glass cases have little room to throw stones

April 13, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

(Beth Clifton collage) “Wet markets” in China & U.S. slaughterhouses both kill people as well as animals SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota––Underscoring that people who buy meat from glass cases have little room to throw stones at the “wet markets” of China and the developing world,  which sell live animals,  the Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods pig slaughterhouse […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Slaughter, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Fernandez, Kendaliyn Granville, Kim Cardova, Kristi Noem, Merritt Clifton, Sarah Hammond, Wendell Young IV

COVID-19 & “The Next Big One”:  Spillover revisited

March 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Anderson G. McKendrick, David Quammen, Merritt Clifton, Peter Daszak, William Ogilvy Kermack, Zheng-Li Shi

Wild animals off market in China: crackdown on coronavirus

February 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Wildlife Tagged With: Isaac Yee, Marco Polo, Merritt Clifton, Yong Xiong

Wet markets or Walmart? Animal consumption & the coronavirus

January 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Deborah Cao, George Bernard Shaw, Michael Standaert

Will feral pigs eat Hong Kong before Hong Kong eats the pigs?

May 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Feral pigs may be poached as African swine fever & trade war cut off pig imports              HONG KONG––A three-way collision among African swine fever,  feral pigs,  and the global pork industry,  U.S. interests included,  may be only days away in Hong Kong. Whatever the outcome,  pigs––both factory-farmed and living free––are already the big net […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Alice Su, Karthi Martelli, Merritt Clifton, Paolo Martelli, Roni Wong, Tam Garland

Live animal markets in New York City: a cut-throat business at best

August 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Customs change with waves of immigration             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Escaping the Iranian Revolution with her parents at age 6,  artist Sara Rahbar as an adult has produced an internationally recognized portfolio on themes often involving human and animal suffering. Yet Rahbar found herself wholly unprepared for the misery she met close to hand on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Judaism, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pollution, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Alex Felsinger, Andrew Zollman, Anne Barnard, Christian Zhang, Clarence Birdeye, Heather Greenhouse, Lore Croghan, Patty Lee, Tom Embury-Dennis

South Korean court rules that killing dogs for meat is illegal

June 25, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Verdict for the first time upholds 1991 law              BUCHEON,  South Korea––Upholding parts of the Korean Animal Protection Act which have been on the books since 1991,  but were never before successfully prosecuted,  a Bucheon city court judge has fined a dog meat farmer the equivalent of $2,050 in U.S. dollars for “killing animals without […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laos, Live markets, Meat issues, Pacific rim, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Uses of dogs, Vietnam Tagged With: Kim Kyung-eun, Merritt Clifton, Park So-youn, Soi Dog Foundation

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