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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

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