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Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

November 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,”  specifically methane emitted by cattle,  “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,”  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021,  during the run-up to the 2021 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Religion & philosophy, Scotland Tagged With: Amanda Little, Christine Chemnitz, Durwood Zaelke, Frank O'Mara, Ian Scoones, John Carmody, Lester Brown, Lisa O'Carroll, Merritt Clifton, Morwenna Coniam, Peter Flanagan

COVID-19 skins fur trade: Ireland bans fur farming; Finland vaccinates mink

October 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Ireland becomes 15th European Union nation to ban or phase out the mink industry             DUBLIN, HELSINKI––Responding to continuing discoveries of the COVID-19 coronavirus in factory-farmed mink,  the government of the Republic of Ireland has elected to ban fur faming. The Finnish Food Authority,  by contrast,  is experimentally vaccinating farmed mink in hopes fur demand […]

Filed Under: Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: Charlie McConalogue, John Carmody, Merritt Clifton

End to Irish & Greek mink farming expected after Danish & Dutch culls

November 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Irish chief medical officer calls for mink cull as “a matter of urgency”             LIMERICK, COPENHAGEN––Not even Guinness bottle caps are flipping,  let alone champagne corks popping,  in celebration of the anticipated imminent end of mink breeding in Ireland,  Denmark,  the Netherlands,  Italy,  Poland, France,  and perhaps even Greece and Spain. Mink massacres underway in […]

Filed Under: Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: John Carmody, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen, Mogens Jensen, Redmond O’Hanlon, Tony Holohan

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