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Civet coffee: cruelty in a cup

March 24, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Not just a distilled load of crap DENPASAR,  HANOI––A vogue for pricy civet coffee has brought the civet farming industry back perhaps bigger than ever––and certainly in many more places,  more than a decade after China tried to bring civet farming to an end. “Liquid speed kills” China banned civet farming in 2004 because of the association […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Feature Home Middle Right, Food & agriculture, Indonesia, Southeast Asia Tagged With: civets, coffee, kopi luwak, Merritt Clifton, Tony Wild

New killer diseases: nature strikes back against factory farming

January 12, 2004 By Merritt Clifton

  GUANGZHOU,  Guangdong province,  China––Representing the unholy marriage of wildlife consumption with factory farming,  an estimated 10,000 masked palm civets,  tanukis,  (also called raccoon dogs),  and hog badgers were sacrificed in the first 10 days of January 2004 for the sins of the meat industry. Mostly cage-reared from  wild-caught ancestors,  the civets,  tanukis,  and hog […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: civets, Merritt Clifton, SARS, tanuki

Cat-eaters may get, spread SARS

November 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

  GUANGZHOU––Laboratory studies of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome directed by virologist Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam,  published in the October 30,  2003 edition of the British journal Nature,  demonstrate that cats and ferrets could potentially carry SARS from filthy live markets to humans. Osterhaus said his experimental goal was simply to […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Dogs & cats, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: civets, live markets, Merritt Clifton, SARS

China to control wildlife cuisine but will not close live markets

July 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

HONG KONG––Hope that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic of 2002-2003 might permanently close the notorious Chinese live wildlife markets was dealt a setback on July 10,  2003 when 12 government ministries and state administrations jointly announced that legal sales of domesticated wildlife would be “encouraged,  guided,  and supported.” The wildlife traffic will be more […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: civets, Merritt Clifton, SARS

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