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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

SARS spread from live markets, but when?

October 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

  BEIJING––Blood tests indicate that about 1% of the children in 17 provinces of China were exposed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome before the outbreaks of 2002-2003 that hit 24 of the 31 provinces. Evidently passing from animals sold in filthy live markets to humans working in food preparation,  and then spreading from human to […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: 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

SARS shuts live markets, may change Chinese menus

June 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

           HONG KONG––Animals sold in the live markets of Guangdong province,  China,  suffered first and worst from the conditions that afflicted the world with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic of the past nine months––but Asian animal defenders are hopeful that a legacy of the epidemic may be the end of live markets for […]

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

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