Critter News
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. I don't see what they get out of it, unless they want to impress Europe, which has already banned seal products. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry.
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2009
The Canadian government has authorized the killing of 280,000 harp seals. The only way it will end is if the market for this product in Europe dries up. Tags: canada barbarism seals. I won't even bother asking the Canadians to stop this barbaric practice. The US already has such a ban in place.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Still, the romantic notion of beery terroir remains persuasive and in some corners of Europe, rustic beer styles persist, despite the homogenizing effects of – or perhaps in reaction against – modern industry. Historically, saison was a beer tied to time as much as it was to place.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves. The bacteria that laid me low earlier this year is a zoonosis, causing problems for New Zealand’s endemic seals as well as visitors to Borneo.
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