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Chinese activists thwart Canadian hope of selling seal meat to China

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Trade deal “largely thwarted by animal rights activists”             HALIFAX,  Nova Scotia––Canadian fisheries minister Gail Shea admitted on the eve of the April 14 opening of the 2014 Atlantic Canada seal hunt that “a trade agreement to sell Canadian seal meat in China announced more than three years ago has been […]

Factory farming & food security in China, Brazil, & Ethiopia

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Climate, Food Security, & Growth: Ethiopia’s Complex Relationship With Livestock (22 pages)  by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer Cattle, Soyanization, & Climate Change: Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution (42 pages) Skillful Means: The Challenge of China’s Encounter With Factory Farming (28 pages) both by Mia MacDonald & Justine Simon,  from Brighter Green, 2011. Free downloads from:   http://brightergreen.org/brightergreen.php?id=24 […]

Public moral concerns warrant EU seal product import ban, rules WTO

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Beginning of the end for the Atlantic Canada seal hunt? BRUSSELS––The World Trade Organization on November 25,  2013 upheld most of the 2009 European Union ban on the import of seal products,  overturning the ban only when applied to “seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit or indigenous communities and hunts conducted for marine […]

Chinese activists object to Canadian deal to sell seal meat & oil to China

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Sealers desperate to find markets BEIJING,  HALIFAX–Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea on January 12,  2011 announced to news media by teleconference call from Beijing that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Chinese Administration of Quality Supervision have reached an agreement which will allow Canadian sealers to export seal meat and oil to China for human consumption. Struggling to find new markets […]

Toronto Humane Society raided by Ontario SPCA

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Executives arrested TORONTO––Nearly 30 years of turmoil over control of the Toronto Humane Society reignited on November 26,  2009 when Ontario SPCA investigators backed by Toronto police arrived at the THS shelter with search warrants and led THS president Tim Trow,  veterinarian Steve Sheridan,  general manager Gary McCracken,  and senior staff members Romeo Bernadino and […]

Russia halts seal hunt

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  MOSCOW,  OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11,  2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country,  as in most developed countries,”  Trutnyev told media. Trutnyev described the ban as […]