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Mink & pig massacres due to COVID-19 may help to kill fur & pork industries too

June 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Netherlands may end fur farming four years before ban takes effect LIMBURG,  Netherlands;  SIOUX CITY, Iowa––The good news,  if it could be called that,  about the scheduled massacre of as many as 30,000 ranched mink on June 6,  2020 is that it may put 10 mink farms owned by eight companies permanently out of business,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs Tagged With: Carola Schouten, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Glenn Greenwald, Hugo DeYoung, Merritt Clifton, Steve King

The minks’ jinx: is COVID-19 an exploited species’ revenge?

May 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch disclose second case of mink-to-human COVID-19 transmission             WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands;  WUHAN, China––“A second case has become known on one of the infected mink farms where,  most likely,  SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19]passed from mink to human,”  Dutch minister of health Hugo DeYoung and minister of agriculture Carola Schouten jointly advised the Dutch parliament on May 25, 2020. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Carola Schouten, Donald Trump, Hugo DeYoung, Merritt Clifton, Peter Li, Wang Yanyi

“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

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