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4 months ago

Dozens of viruses detected in Chinese fur farm animals

Dozens of viruses have been detected mixing in animals at fur farms in China, some of which are new and have the potential to spill over into humans, researchers said on Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Virologist Edward Holmes, who has led research into Covid-19, told AFP he felt that the global fur farming industry “is one most likely ways by …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Switching from beef to chicken isn’t the sustainability flex you think it is

Salon

For climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. For many people in the U.S., it’s factory farmed chicken, which has about one tenth the climate impact per serving. At a glance, the carbon footprint of factory farmed chicken is dramatically lower than that of industrially raised beef: These chickens produce about 10 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents …

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7 months ago

More aquatic animals were farmed than fished in 2022, for the first time ever

The Hindu

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world's waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported on June 8. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, in its latest report on fisheries and aquaculture, says the global catch and …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Opinion: Think humans’ treatment of animals has improved in 50 years? Think again

LA Times

Fifty years ago, my first article arguing that it is wrong to treat animals as we do appeared in the New York Review of Books. That number is dwarfed by the approximately 200 billion vertebrate animals raised for food in appalling conditions in factory farms. In any objective assessment of the lives, and deaths, of animals under human control, the …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Why does California have an egg shortage?

LA Times

The egg selection at Grocery Outlet in Redondo Beach on Jan. 5. The average retail price for a dozen large eggs jumped to $7.37 in California last week, up from just $2.35 at this time last year. But if we can weather the bird flu outbreak and increase production of cage-free eggs, then we can return to a status quo …

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3 years, 6 months ago

European Commission to ban all cages for farmed animals

The Independent

The European Commission has unveiled plans to ban all cages for farmed animals within six years, in decision hailed as historic. Nearly 1.4 million EU citizens – including many from the UK before Brexit – signed a European Citizens’ Initiative petition calling for a ban on cages, which prevent animals moving around freely and being outdoors. Olga Kikou, head of …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Spain orders cull of nearly 100,000 farmed mink after animals test positive for Covid-19

CNN

CNN — Spanish authorities have ordered the culling of almost 100,000 mink following an outbreak at a farm, where the animals are bred for fur,after a number tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Environment of Spain’s Aragon region said in a statement on Thursday that it had ordered the slaughter of the 92,700 mink …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Chinese government reveals draft list of animals which can be farmed for meat

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is suspected to have originated from wild animals in a Wuhan wet market. China’s Ministry of Agriculture issued a draft list of animals considered fit to be used as livestock on …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Should Christians eat animals? The challenge of Christian animal ethics

ABC

An abyss lies between a Christian understanding of how animals should be treated, and the way we in fact treat them. Christians are currently acting in ways that completely disregard the status of animals as fellow animal creatures of the God we worship ― especially in manner we use them for food. Therefore, a Christian doctrine of creation gives us …

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