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No way to bee EPA knuckleheads hide info on pesticide implicated in colony collapse disorder	Tom Philpott	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
So there's this insecticide called clothianidin that seems likely to be implicated in colony collapse disorder. By the EPA's own reckoning [PDF], clothianidin 'has the potential for toxic chronic exposure to honeybees, as well as other nontarget pollinators, through the translocation of clothianidin residues in nectar and pollen.' Over in Germany, the introduction of clothianidin coincided with a sudden bee die-off, so German authorities recently banned it. They reckon ...
Topics: animal welfare, litigation, NRDC, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Whole Foods edition The natural foods giant stumbles into an E. coli outbreak	Tom Philpott	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. Suddenly, Whole Foods can't get a break. Its share price has plunged about 70 percent since the end of 2005. Its marketing execs are scrambling to shed the company's reputation for premium-priced offerings -- a market position they once reveled in. The natural foods titan used to wow Wall Street with seemingly endless announcements of new-store openings. Now it's scaling back expansion plans. ...
Topics: animal welfare, business, food, health, livestock (all these topics)

A superbug's life Another reason to fear the factory farm	Kit Stolz	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Superbugs. An alarming story in this week's The New Yorker focuses on man-made new diseases that cannot be eradicated with conventional antibiotics, even inside hospitals. The writer quotes Michael Pollan to explain the connection to your local meat factory: 'Seventy per cent of the antibiotics administered in America end up in agriculture,' Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism at Berkeley and the author of 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto,' told [t ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, health, livestock (all these topics)

Of Mice and Menace House, car of animal researchers bombed; animal-rights groups suspected		04 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 7:32 AM on 04 Aug 2008 This weekend, two University of California-Santa Cruz scientists who use animals in their experiments were the target of two separate bombings. One scientist who uses mice in his research on brain development had a firebomb ignited on his front porch while he and his family were home early Saturday morning. The other researcher's unoccupied car was bombed. So far, no anima ...
Topics: animal welfare, eco-terrorism, news, United States (all these topics)

Good news for modern farm animals From New Jersey, bad news for factory farms	Tom Philpott	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Thomas Hobbes famously described life in a 'state of nature' as 'nasty, brutish, and short.' The U.S. meat industry appears to have taken Hobbes' statement as a prescription for proper animal husbandry. Every year, millions of farm animals are slaughtered without ever knowing anything besides life in a grim, crowded cage. Many are subjected to painful mutilation, as in the case of 'tail docking.' In a sense, cows may have it worst of all. They typically spend th ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, livestock, New Jersey (all these topics)

Down on the factory farm California's Prop 2 could end the worst farm-animal abuses and set a national precedent	Meredith Niles	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
When Californians go to the polls in November they can set a precedent for the rest of the country by ending the worst animal and environmental abuses and simultaneously increasing the safety of our national food supply. It's an election year and we all know what that means -- big money, big events, and big promises. As the rest of the country listens endlessly to the political propaganda of the last few desperate months before November, California voters are bein ...
Topics: livestock, animal welfare, green living (all these topics)

PETA gets served Animal rights group called out for repeatedly exploiting women	Holly Richmond	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
A 2006 PETA protest. Photo: anheuser via Flickr. Yesterday, The Sydney Morning Herald had a piece about PETA titled, 'Why does a pro-vegetarian organisation treat women like meat?' Good question. The women-as-meat connection's nothing new -- 1990's Sexual Politics of Meat, anyone? But it's especially ironic coming from a group that asserts, 'Animals are not ours to use for entertainment.' Seattle's stellar Erica Barnett (writer for alt-weekly The Strange ...
Topics: animal welfare, gender, green living, sex, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Whale, You Were Out! Makah tribe members sentenced for illegal whale hunt		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:09 AM on 01 Jul 2008 The five members of the Makah tribe who participated in an unsanctioned hunt of a gray whale last year were sentenced earlier this week. The Makah tribe, whose reservation is located in northwestern Washington state, is the only tribe in the country with treaty rights to hunt whales. However, the long, arduous process of obtaining a waiver to actually conduct a legal hunt has fueled the pr ...
Topics: animal welfare, news, politics, United States, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

An Unimpressive Volley Wimbledon under fire for shooting pigeons		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:50 PM on 24 Jun 2008 As the Wimbledon tennis championships get underway, the real drama isn't on the court but in the air. After the players' lawn and an open-air restaurant were dive-bombed by pigeons, officials sent marksmen to take 'em out. The tournament employs two hawks for pigeon-scaring, "and by and large they do the job," says a Wimbledon spokesperson. "But unfortunately there were one or two ar ...
Topics: animal welfare, green living, news, sports, wildlife (all these topics)

Gonna wash that orangutan right out of my hair New website shows which shampoos, foods kill lovable primates	Glenn Hurowitz	27 May 2008	Gristmill
While doing the research for a Los Angeles Times op-ed about the dangers and prevalence of palm oil, I came across a great new website from the Rainforest Action Network. It lists hundreds of products that contain this orangutan-killer. (In case you haven't been following palm oil coverage on Grist and elsewhere, rainforests -- the homes of the orangutans and many other rare creatures -- are being destroyed at the fastest rate in history in Indonesia and Malaysia to m ...
Topics: animal welfare, grassroots activism, green living, habitat loss, shopping, websites (all these topics)

Not killing to get elected Presidential candidates may forgo shooting small animals to impress voters this year	Kit Stolz	18 May 2008	Gristmill
This presidential election, for the first time in decades, will not feature candidates for the highest office in the land donning hunting gear and going out with guns to shoot small animals fleeing in terror. The contrast to the 2004 election, in which both candidates made a publicity stunt out of killing for votes, is stark. In September of that year, The Arizona Republic published in September a strong op-ed by former White House speechwriter Matthew Scully, who excori ...
Topics: animal welfare, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

CSI: Sea Lion Unit Sea lions actually not assassinated, say officials		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 08 May 2008 Think the twisty tale of the Bonneville Dam sea lions can't get any twistier? Think again! The six sea lions that were reported to have been assassinated over the weekend were not in fact killed by gunshots, officials now say. The cause of death is still unknown; human involvement has not been ruled out, but investigators are also considering the role of dehydration, heat exhaustion, or panic. ...
Topics: animal welfare, news, wildlife (all these topics)

There's a metaphor in here somewhere	David Roberts	04 May 2008	Gristmill
Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear.
Topics: animal welfare, green living, sex (all these topics)

Ducks per gallon Tar sands are hardly 'environmentally responsible'	Josh Dorner	02 May 2008	Gristmill
Alberta's tar sands got yet another huge black eye this week when as many as 500 ducks died after simply landing on a giant pond full of highly toxic oil sands tailings. Only five were said to have survived their toxic plunge. A member of a Canadian environmental watchdog group described the water found in the ponds as follows: Drinking a glass of water from a tailings pond would be like drinking a diluted glass of oil or gasoline. Whether the bitumen is cooked ...
Topics: Alberta, animal welfare, energy, environmental movement, international politics, oil sands, politics (all these topics)

Reason #689,251 oil sands suck	David Roberts	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Killing ducks?! Come on now.
Topics: oil sands, energy, animal welfare (all these topics)

The Gray Area Gray wolves under attack, groups want them re-listed		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:03 PM on 28 Apr 2008 Saying that their concerns about trigger-happy hunters have been validated, 12 conservation and animal-rights groups have sued to get the gray wolf re-listed as an endangered species. The 1,500 wolves that roam through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho were delisted on Mar. 28 and can now be shot at will; a total of 37 have been killed in the last month. Conservation groups filed suit Monday, saying th ...
Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

See Spot sweat Global warming could mean disease and dehydration for pets	Erik Hoffner	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Maybe you've been wondering about how rapid climate destabilization will effect pets. No? Well, maybe you should. This article in the latest issue of City Tails magazine broke the story recently, and according to them, it's not just the long-hairs that face a sweaty future. All domestic animals will be facing off against more disease vectors than ever before. So, if you know someone who can't countenance any so-called 'sacrifice' to do their part, just bring their belov ...
Topics: animal welfare, climate change impacts, green living (all these topics)

By a Whisker Northwest sea lions granted stay of execution		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:03 PM on 24 Apr 2008 Sea lions all set to gobble their last salmon supper at a Northwest dam have been granted a stay of execution by a U.S. appeals court. Judges granted an injunction, requested by the Humane Society, that a lower court had denied last week. It's only a partial victory for the Humane Society, however, as the court did OK the transfer of the whiskery rascals to zoos and aquariums; state officials planned to ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

That's One Expensive Hamburger PETA offers $1 million for commercially viable test-tube meat		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 5:17 PM on 21 Apr 2008 PETA thinks the idea of test-tube meat looks like a million bucks. Literally. The outspoken animal-rights group is offering a cool one mil to the "first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012." The idea caused "a near civil war in our office," says PETA founder Ingrid Ne ...
Topics: animal welfare, food, news (all these topics)

Pet Scan Cats and dogs contaminated with chemicals, says study		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:18 AM on 21 Apr 2008 Fido and Fluffy are contaminated with higher levels of toxic chemicals than humans are, according to a report from the Environmental Working Group. In a test of the blood and urine of dozens of cats and dogs, researchers found 48 industrial chemicals. The contamination likely comes from such actions as gnawing on plastic toys, sleeping on fire-retardant-covered furniture, frolicking on pesticide-lade ...
Topics: animal welfare, green living, news, toxics (all these topics)

Lions' Humane Judge denies Humane Society injunction, OKs sea-lion trapping		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:41 PM on 17 Apr 2008 Denying an injunction sought by the Humane Society, a federal judge has given the go-ahead to Oregon and Washington state officials to trap and kill salmon-gobbling sea lions near the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. The animal-rights group sued after the National Marine Fisheries Service OK'd sea-lion culling last month. An official hearing on the Humane Society lawsuit could be held as ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Fin-ally! Congress has a chance to protect sharks from finning	Andrew Sharpless	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the U.S. Court of Appeals' decision to throw out penalties against a fishing vessel carrying 64,695 pounds of shark fins in U.S. waters. Shipping a cargo full of shark fins without sharks is illegal in the United States, but the King Diamond II sailed through a loophole that allowed it to carry fins it had gathered from other ships. Something good has come out of this: The decision has galvanized pressure to end the brutal practice of ...
Topics: animal welfare, Congress, fishing, oceans, politics, regulation (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Photosynthesis and invertibrate sex	Andrew Sharpless	05 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Two new studies may upend previously accepted understanding of photosynthesis. A widespread type of cyanobacteria may not use as much carbon dioxide in photosynthesis as presumed, meaning the oceans are capable of less carbon dioxide absorption than scientists had thought ... ... in other cyanobacteria news, scientists discovered that viruses may play a key role in prompting the phytoplankton to consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen ... ... the Natio ...
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Hollywood Heavies Elton John, Lindsay Lohan, and 50 Cent unite to free a killer whale -- meet the man who brought them together	Sarah van Schagen	04 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Celebs are flipping out over Lolita's living conditions. Photo: Krosstok Hollywood producer Raul Julia-Levy's current project involves an impressive cast ranging from Johnny Depp, Lindsay Lohan, and Harrison Ford to Elton John, 50 Cent, and Pl�cido Domingo. He's attracted high-powered producers including Cameron Crowe, Ed Elbert, and Ron ...
Topics: animal welfare, celebrity, grassroots activism, interview, oceans (all these topics)

Cane, You Hear Me Now Animal-welfare group backs toad-killing in Australia		03 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:48 PM on 03 Apr 2008 Australian politician Shane Knuth has proposed a special "Toad Day Out" for residents of the state of Queensland to kill cane toads, a poisonous invasive species that Knuth calls "the greatest environmental vermin and probably the most disgusting creature known to man." The plan even has the backing of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- with ...
Topics: animal welfare, Australia, biodiversity, news, wildlife (all these topics)

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