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New Zealand ends live sheep & cattle exports by sea––two years from now

April 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Export directly to slaughter banned since 2008             WELLINGTON, NZ––New Zealand agriculture minister Damien O’Connor on April 14,  2021 announced a permanent halt to live animal exports by sea,  effective in 2023. O’Connor,  though his announcement was not a complete surprise,  left New Zealand agribusiness,  the international animal welfare community,  and rival nations in the […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Welfare Tagged With: Andrea Midgen, Damien O’Connor, Hmood Al-Khalaf, James Fyfe, Jed Goodfellow, Lynley Tulloch, Mark Harvey-Sutton, Merritt Clifton, Simone Clarke

Australian sheep export to Bahrain meets “bloody & miserable end” in Pakistan

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

22,000 sheep culled in secret KARACHI,  Pakistan––The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20,  2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4,  2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover,  Malir district deputy commissioner Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Food, Hooved stock, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Welfare Tagged With: Cormo Express, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ocean Drover, P.K. Livestock

Sheep & cattle stranded at sea by Suez Canal blockage are moving again

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

3,000-year-old livestock shipping route opened by Pharoahs is unblocked             ISMAILIA, Egypt––Tens of thousands of sheep,  cattle,  and other live animals stranded for up to six days aboard more than 20 transport vessels are moving again through  the Suez Canal,  as of March 29,  2021. Egyptian Lieutenant General Osama Rabei,  heading the Suez Canal Authority,  […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Romania, Sheep & goats, Spain, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Elbeik, Gerit Weidinger, Karim Allah, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Suez Canal

Wisconsin hunters overkill the wolf bag limit by half in just 72 hours

February 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But Spain,  with twice as many wolves in about the same amount of habitat,  puts wolves off limits to hunters             MADISON, Wisconsin;  MADRID,  Spain––Wisconsin hunters and trappers killed 216 wolves in under 72 hours during the last week of February 2021,  97 more than the “management target” of 119,  obliging the state Department of […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Predators, Sheep & goats, Spain, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: James Badcock, Merritt Clifton, Paul A. Smith, Todd Richmond, Vincent West

Ethiopian woman who saved rare Italian goat breed is raped, killed

December 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Happy Goat” farmer/sanctuarian Agitu Ideo Gudeta,  42,  was reportedly killed by Ghanian she gave a job VALLE dei MOCHENI,  Trentino,  Italy––Goat herder Adams Suleimani,  32,  an immigrant to Italy from Ghana,  has reportedly confessed to raping Happy Goat [La Capra Felice] farmer/sanctuarian and cheesemaker Agitu Ideo Gudeta,  42,  and bludgeoning her to death with a hammer,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Ethiopia, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Ghana, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sheep & goats, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: Adams Suleimani, Agitu Ideo Gudeta, Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, Frassilongo, Merritt Clifton, Mòcheni, Plankerhof

Mountain goat massacre begins in Grand Tetons

January 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Shaky science may doom mountain goats in their own habitat             JACKSON,  Wyoming––The northern and western slopes of the Cathedral Mountains in Grand Teton National Park were on January 5,  2020 closed to the public to allow air gunners flown by Baker Aircraft of Baker City,  Oregon,  to massacre as many as 100 mountain goats […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Disease, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Sheep & goats, Wildlife Tagged With: Alyson Courtemanch, Augusté "Johnny" Janisse, Cory Hatch, Jack Dempsey, John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, Merritt Clifton, Mike Koshmrl, Sarah Dewey, Steve Kilpatrick, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Hornaday

Livestock shipment to Middle East goes sideways; to Hawaii, goes backward

December 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Drowned sheep & asphixiated cattle result from opposite approaches to maximizing profit MILILANI, Hawaii––Compared to the drowning deaths of more than 14,350 sheep on November 24,  2019 aboard the capsized Queen Hind in the port of Midia,  Romania,  the deaths of 21 Angus heifers aboard a Young Brothers barge en route from Honolulu to Kauai,  […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Romania, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom Tagged With: Bobby Farias, Carroll Cox, Jason Moniz, Jill Phipps, John Palmer Parker, Linda J. Cox, Wyatt Bechtel

Cruelty charges filed against Aussie live sheep shippers––a first!

August 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Shipping company already lost live export license             PERTH,  Australia––Cruelty charges were on July 31,  2019 filed against two former directors of the live animal shipping company Emanuel Exports over the August 2017 deaths of more than 2,400 sheep from heat stress aboard the Awassi Express.             The sheep were in transit to slaughter in […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Calla Wahlquist, Graham Daws, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stanton, Nicholas Daws

E. coli kills yet another child who visited a petting zoo

July 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Third known petting zoo fatality since 2011 SAN DIEGO, California––Jedidiah King Cabezuela,  age 2,  on June 24,  2019 died from hemolytic uremic syndrome,  an apparent complication of exposure to shiga toxin-producing e. coli bacteria two weeks earlier at the San Diego County Fair. “The County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency said the […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horse & livestock shows, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Sheep & goats, Zoos Tagged With: Aedin Grey, Colton Guay, Gage Lefevers, Jedidiah King Cabezuela, Merritt Clifton, Myles Herschaft, Scott Weese, Tim Fennell

Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse

April 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it             WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  riding a white horse,  red horse,  black horse,  and pale horse to sow Pestilence,  War,  Famine,  and Death,  are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Sheep & goats, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Chris Stewart, Donald Trump, Kitty Block, Laura Leigh, Merritt Clifton, Priscilla Feral, Sara Amundson, Suzanne Roy

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