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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

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