reuters.com - 1/21/2009
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HARBIN, China (Reuters) - Fur may have fallen out of favor with some fashion designers and shoppers concerned about animal welfare, but breeding animals for their pelts is a thriving industry in northeastern China. China is a major exporter of fur garments and the number of fur farms have ...
time.com - 1/26/2009
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time.com —
Number of people potentially affected: 3,000,000 Type of
pollutant: Coal and particulates Source of pollution: Automobile and...
industrial emissions This soot-blackened city in China's inland Shanxi province makes Dickensian London look as pristine as ...
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Linfen, China - The World's Most Polluted Places
progressive.org - 1/22/2009
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progressive.org —
The Progressive: A little more than two years
ago, bestselling author Bill McKibben's life was filled with...
canoe trips, mountaineering, writing, and teaching. The author of a dozen books and a scholar in residence at Vermont's Middlebury College, ...
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Bill McKibben Interview
wwfchina.org - 1/21/2009
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wwfchina.org —
1. Why is the initiative needed? China is
the most populous country in the world. Its economy...
is also one of the fastest growing, with annual average GDP growth rates settling in at 9% to 10% over recent decades. The steady growth has attracted global ...
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WWF China
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The Growing Chinese Fur Trade Uses Artificial Insemination
Green Daily —
Filed under: Fashion, News, Activism, Plants and WildlifeThis article about the Chinese fur industry creeped me out, so it's probably giving PETA conniption fits! The industry, which has grown at a yearly average of 10% since 2004, is looking to science to help them be more...productive. As in, producing more animals to skin (allegedly alive) for Russians to wear during frigid northern winters. Bunnies seem to be able to procreate fast enough to meet the demand for their pelts, but other species, like fox ...
China’s Fur Industry Contemplating Artificial Insemination
EarthFirst.com —
... in cramped, filthy conditions before skinning them alive is bad enough, but as it turns out, the Chinese fur industry has decided that they’ll add artificial insemination into the mix to produce more animals to skin.
Apparently, foxes and raccoon dogs just don’t procreate fast enough to produce as much fur as the Chinese fur overlords would like them to. The number of fur farms in northern China has exploded in the past few years as demand from Russia increases.
From Reuters, via Green Daily:
A group of scientists is now helping locals ...
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