Originally posted on Horseracing Wrongs:
Astonishingly, the “demonstrably safer” New York Racing Association keeps killing horses. In the 1st today at Aqueduct, Mr. Tag, three, was “vanned off” and subsequently euthanized. (The Gaming Commission appended this consolation: “no apparent injury to rider.”) In this, a covid-impacted year, an unconscionable 75 racehorses have died at the…

Originally posted on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog:
https://blog.humanesociety.org/2020/11/with-wolves-about-to-lose-esa-protections-wisconsin-officials-push-to-open-trophy-hunt.html?credit=blog_em_111920_id11823&utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=humanenation November 19, 2020 0 Comments Wolf populations continue to be dangerously low all around the United States and these apex carnivores, so crucial to their ecosystems, now occupy only 15 percent of their historic range in this country.?Photo by Richard Seeley/iStock.com1.2KSHARES Wisconsin, which has a history…

Originally posted on Horseracing Wrongs:
The California Horse Racing Board has disclosed the death of an “unnamed filly” at Santa Anita Wednesday – cause, colic. For those who’d like to absolve the racing industry of these types of deaths, this.

Originally posted on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog:
Kopenhagen Fur announced plans to close its doors by 2023 after the Danish government ordered a mass culling. By BRYAN HOOD  https://robbreport.com/style/fashion/kopenhagen-fur-shut-down-2023-coronavirus-1234581403/ Kopenhagen Fur/Facebook The Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t just slowed the fur business in?Denmark; it may have killed it off entirely. That’s because a newly discovered?coronavirus?mutation has…

Originally posted on Horseracing Wrongs:
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, California Racing kills another. Duchamp, four, went down training at Golden Gate today. He becomes the 90th dead racehorse at California tracks this year. On the other coast, New York is at 87. How proud for these two supposedly progressive states. Vile.

Originally posted on Exposing the Big Game:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201105-what-is-ecocide From the Pope to Greta Thunberg, there are growing calls for the crime of “ecocide” to be recognised in international criminal law – but could such a law ever work?I In December 2019, at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Vanuatu’s ambassador to the European Union…

Originally posted on Horseracing Wrongs:
Through a FOIA request to the California Horse Racing Board, I have obtained the following details on 2020 kills (previous ones here). (The names were redacted but, paradoxically, the dead had already been identified on the Board’s public database.) Warren, Jul 2, Los Alamitos S“colic, distended small intestine, extensive hemorrhages”…

Originally posted on Horseracing Wrongs:
Celtic Miracle was “vanned off” the track after the 5th at Los Alamitos Friday. We now know (CHRB) that the filly was vanned to her death. Los Alamitos, you might remember, was placed on “probation” back in July for what was, at the time, a toll of 30 kills since…

Originally posted on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog:
By Luke McGee and Vasco Cotovio, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/europe/mink-covid-19-denmark-update-intl/index.html Updated 11:06 AM ET, Sat November 7, 2020All of Denmark’s population of up to 17 million mink will be culled. (CNN)The United Kingdom has banned travelers from Denmark after the country?reported a widespread outbreak of a new variant of the virus…

Originally posted on Horseracing Wrongs:
In the 2nd race at Keeneland today – part of the Breeders’ Cup weekend – Absolutely Aiden “suffered an injury and fell…then was vanned off.” The 4-year-old colt is, we now know, dead: “humane euthanasia was in the best interest of the horse,” said a statement from the track. By…