Jan Hajek

Ebola outbreak DRC - over 10,000 cases and 5,000 deaths and yesterday a nurse was killed by people with machetes amid year of civil war, food insecurity, and lack of access to quality healthcare

"Reducing cruelty improves society." Read the ever-interesting @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social on the late-breaking controversy around DC's proposed ban on foie gras: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

“The scenario I’m worried about is this one: workers who are exposed to these animals will get sick - - and some of them might die" [- and some minks may be co-infected with seasonal flu] [- and some may spread to others]

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"farming mink for their fur, a cruel and pointless practice, continues in Europe, North America and China. There’s a high chance that the next pandemic, whatever it may be, will emerge in one of these places. .... we need a global treaty to ban mink farming."

📣 Dear #UCP, The vote today in #Alberta? What a massive, massive, massive waste of resources and taxpayers' money. What a hate-mongering debacle. What a lie-infused polarizing clusterf*ck. Shame. On. You. 😡

- every now and then we catch a peek of what goes on behind those walls - “When you watch this footage, this is standard practice,”

The #H5N1 outbreak on mink fur farm in Utah was the genotype B3.13 also spreading among cows - and spilling back over from cows to other animals It would be good to have more information about what happened / is happening in and around that mink fur farm.... nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5...

NAZA - in Vancouver Oct 13 - 22 viff.org/whats-on/naza/

Not mentioned about this unethical study is "why Guinea-Bissau"? The trial is not to test efficacy - we already know it's effective - it's to test non-specific effects. There is *zero* grounds to do that in a country with high risk of HepB - if UoSD is hell-bent on doing a study, do it in Denmark.

How to make a #pandemic 2019 - H1N1 flu on mink fur farm in Utah 2020 - COVID on mink fur farm in Utah 2026 - #H5N1 avian flu on mink fur farm in Utah - ongoing As one Utah State Official stated - the “mink situation” is “not looking good”

Senegal’s booming fishmeal industry is diverting local fish catches to feed foreign livestock and aquaculture. As local supply plummets, coastal communities face severe food insecurity and pollution, pushing some fishers to risk dangerous sea migrations to Europe. An investigation by Ian Urbina.

....“This virus that CAME OUT OF COMMERCIAL POULTRY FARMING is now decimating seal populations and wild birds." 👇

Congo's Ebola outbreak records more than 4,000 deaths | AP News apnews.com/article/cong...

Europe’s floating factories make up just one percent of the fleet but catch more than half the fish—and they cause the majority of environmental damage. insideclimatenews.org/news/0110202...

“Good design is rooted in human dignity” -- Spring House, Toronto’s new supportive housing building, sets an important example, tackling homelessness while attending to the details that make a good home, by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

12 critically endangered Nubian giraffes were relocated from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to make way for oil extraction. As economic priorities increasingly undermine protected areas, how safe is critical biodiversity inside national parks? Watch more 👉️ mongabay.cc/Conservation...

On National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, we stand with Indigenous communities, & we remember the children who never came home from residential schools. Reconciliation is a shared responsibility. It calls on all of us to listen, learn, & take meaningful action 🧡

Mink farming is a massive pandemic risk. It's insane that they are allowed to exist. Now we have an active H5N1 outbreak on a mink farm, & "state officials have no clear plan to rein it in." Imagine if uncontrolled H5N1 transmission in mink were allowed in a research lab...

"Responsible wildlife management" Let people drive along the woods, then release dogs to chase bears (or cougars) until collapse in exhaustion or up a tree - and then shoot them with bullets, or just give themselves high fives and return to do it all over again... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Since the rise of humans, wild land mammal biomass has declined by 85%. Around 100,000 years ago, all of the wild land mammals on Earth summed up to around 20 million tonnes of carbon. By around 10,000 years ago, there had been a huge decline, likely in the range of 25% to 50%.

On Sept. 13, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in #Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One MSF staff member was injured in the strike.

H5N1 has been detected on a US mink farm for the first time, adding to growing concerns about the public health risks of fur farming: www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

One Health / One Welfare eg 1 - he was a proponent of reduced violence to horses ♥️ - he also worked to help people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder ♥️ eg 2 - his father beat horses into submission 😢 - his father also beat him as punishment as a child 😢 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

It’s an odd thing to celebrate, the biggest opinion essay of my career, about the unravelling of animal protection in Canada. Ten years of work about the major wins and progress for animals in our country, only to see so much inaction and regression. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

How have humans reshaped the world’s land over the last 12,000 years? Over thousands of years, humans have gradually transformed the Earth’s surface — clearing land for agriculture (crops and grazing animals) and building settlements.

NEW: Kenya has never had an Ebola case. However, a planned quarantine facility exclusively serving Americans exposed to the virus in Africa has sparked massive protests, leading to a deadly police crackdown. “Why can’t the facility be in America?” asked Lucy Kagure, mother of a killed protester.

In Chicago, Upton Sinclair worked undercover for 7 weeks in slaughterhouse. His goal was to research and document working conditions and unsanitary practices that occurred behind closed doors But, in Ontario, it's now illegal for a journalist to work undercover in a slaughterhouse....

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/w...

Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left, and the consequences could be even more disastrous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpTZ...

PS - Pigs are also susceptible to Ebola

“Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory.” - Hog Farm Management www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

At the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the front line is completely overwhelmed. Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, describes what he saw in the Ebola ward at Mongbwalu General Hospital. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

US surgeon, working in DRC, taken to Germany for treatment for Ebola His wife (who also worked as a doctor in the same hospital in DRC) and their children remain in DRC www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

1/2 A film about emotions for cows. Cows can distinguish between human emotions (anger and joy) shown to them on video. Later, when they encounter these people in person, they prefer the one who displayed joy. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Billie Eilish defends herself after declaring eating meat is 'inherently wrong' www.castanet.net/news/Enterta...

Emma Smart was sentenced for criminal damage, after releasing a lobster from a seafood restaurant. She tells the Canary what motivated her

CBC called attention to wild pigs (that were imported into Canada by people decades ago) Concern raised that they can introduce and spread #ASF and #HFMD How would that happen? Do they interact w farmed pigs? @ryankbrook.bsky.social @scottweese.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dr. Sarah Foster says bottom trawling, which drags heavy nets across the ocean floor, is one of the most destructive #fishing practices that must be overhauled to conserve species both for commercial use & to preserve #ocean ecosystem. @projectseahorse.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/bottom-...

Well done report 👇 Missing an interesting fact that this ostrich farm was previously vaccinating the animals against COVID Upsetting that they are restocking with more ostriches - and that there is no pro-active screening for influenza on ostrich, poultry, or pig farms

From overall health to preventing you from turning into a cyborg, there are folks who believe that urine possesses substantial health benefits. And I crashed their summit. Hope you’re hydrated 🫶🏻 Watch here: youtu.be/3UduddqGUyI?...

Rats are stubborn, clever, & remarkably adaptable. They learn fast, cooperate with one another, avoid danger, and keep going under conditions that wipe out other species. They’ll even free trapped companions and choose to help another rat over receiving chocolate.

"The guidelines also recommend easy-to-collect tongue swab samples... www.who.int/news/item/24...