External Links

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/business/china-pet-food-trade-war.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

The Trade War’s Latest Casualties: China’s Coddled Cats and DogsSome Chinese pet owners don’t trust local food and will even taste it themselves before serving it. For them, the fight means fewer and pricier choices.

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2169687/try-amazing-meat-free-burgers-confusion-sheung-wan

Confusion serves up tasty vegan burgers in Sheung WanConfusion Plant Based Kitchen serves tofu fries and Beyond Burgers, made from meat substituteYou can also enjoy a plant based, dairy free cheesecake

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2169724/india-detains-chinese-tourists-smuggling-shawls-made-endangered

Chinese tourists face seven years in Indian jailTwo Chinese women were arrested in New Delhi for attempting to leave India with US$574,000 worth of the shawls, made from an endangered antelopeThe tourists face potential fines of up to 450,000 yuan (US$64,800) each and between three and seven years in jail, according to Chinese media

“Gail Melson, a psychologist and professor emerita at Purdue University, in the United States, who has studied human-robot interactions…researched how children interacted with an earlier incarnation of Sony’s aibo and found that while most treated the robotic pet differently from a real dog – behaving as if it was an inanimate object or a toy…[Read more]

The truth about robot cats and dogs: can they replace real pets?New realistic-looking AI devices ‘learn’ and grow smarter over time, act as therapeutic companions – and recharge their batteries themselves

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/22/watch-out-drongos-competitive-birders-gear-up-for-30-hour-challenge

Watch out, Drongos: competitive birders gear up for 30-hour challengeTwitchathon teams will race all over Australia to spot birds, but the less energetic can join the Aussie Backyard Bird Count

https://abcnews.go.com/US/animal-activists-outraged-forest-service-handling-wild-horses/story?id=58438306

Animal activists outraged at Forest Service handling of wild horsesAnimal activists and horse lovers are criticizing the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to round up 1,000 wild horses in northern California this month.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/10/18/why-california-has-straw-bans-mandated-vegan-food-and-iowa-doesnt/1436525002/

Why California is home to straw bans and mandated meatless Mondays — and Iowa isn'tA population of creative risk-takers, a culture of innovation and a 107-year-old political mechanism put California at the forefront of edgy laws.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-last-thing-we-need-more-dead-chickens-20181019-story.html

The last thing we need: more dead chickens - NY Daily NewsBowing to the demands of the National Chicken Council, the Trump administration made a move last month to allow chicken processing facilities to work faster, killing up to 175 birds per minute...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/business/quaker-foods-pepsi-oat-milk.html

Quaker Bets Oat Milk Is More Than Just a Passing FadQuaker Oats, a unit of PepsiCo, will enter the fast-growing market for plant-based milk alternatives with a version based on the grain that made it famous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/plant-based-dairy-products-arent-new-neither-is-the-us-dairy-industrys-hostility/2018/10/19/7341108e-b36e-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html?utm_term=.4a3f268156fa

Opinion | Plant-based ‘dairy’ products aren’t new. Neither is the U.S. dairy industry’s hostility.Do shoppers really need to be protected from the mistaken belief that almond cheese comes from cows?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45799453#_=_

Could big-game fishing return to the UK?Huge bluefin tuna are being caught again in British waters - but can they be fished sustainably?

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2169591/vegan-egg-tarts-indian-food-japanese-hong-kong-restaurant-picks

Where a Hong Kong vegetarian caterer goes for Indian food, egg tartsBhawna Shetty has lived around the world, trained as a baker and has a weakness for desserts, all of which influence her favourite places for vegetarian food

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44046472#_=_

Restoring South Georgia's wildlife paradiseThe biggest rat eradication project ever undertaken appears to have succeeded.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45918770#

'Super-sized' mice threat to seabirdsOvergrown mice are killing millions of chicks on the remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45935824#

Lioness kills father of her cubs at zooLioness Zuri attacked the father of her cubs, Nyack, who had lived with her for eight years.

https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-animal-hoarding-effect-on-rescuers-20181016-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3mbhZS4zPOJpKtbmVvh-uCT50wfyp5NT90R0MUIm0a02LAeBmmqSOfaio

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/fishing-anglers-fish-hurt-injuries-catch-and-release-feeding-a8575816.html?fbclid=IwAR2h8yeVGNmaaYz9xHzm1GivFSD6St3af1p-9FXDipvx7p1vlrmKo2-fB1o

Catching fish then letting them go is actually causing them harmFindings will be alarming for those who consider their hobby not only harmless to fish, but also a way to conserve at-risk species

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2169513/china-backed-dam-indonesia-rainforest-cut-through-home

Will China-backed dam wipe out this great ape forever?● Dam site is the only known habitat of orangutan species that numbers about 800● Sinohydro, which built Three Gorges Dam, awarded design and construction contract

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/19/benny-the-beluga-whale-forces-firework-display-postponement

Benny the beluga whale forces firework display postponementCouncil in Kent told that disturbing the whale would breach wildlife law

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/21/killer-myxomatosis-britain-brown-hare-death

Why rural Britain would be a sadder place without beautiful haresAs myxomatosis spreads from rabbits, there are fears for the future of a species that holds a unique place in our affections