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Charreada steer.

So is cruelty to animals more a part of Hispanic heritage than Catholicism?

December 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 4 Comments

Cultural defenses of steer-tailing and bullfighting ignore both U.S. anti-cruelty laws and 456 years of Catholic prohibition             BELVIDERE,  Illinois;  LOS ANGELES,  California––Responded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi to the December 6,  2023 report Los Angeles … [Read More...]

Charreada

Los Angeles council vote against rodeo opens new fight against charreada

December 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

Will the Los Angeles ordinance really stop steer-tailing & other rodeo mayhem? LOS ANGELES,  California;  BELVIDERE,  Illinois––The Los Angeles City Council on December 5,  2023 voted 14-0 to ban rodeos within the city,  nominally resolving a multi-year debate but actually referring the most … [Read More...]

Baby and wolf hybrid Fatal dog attack.

Alabama wolf hybrid baby killing: Jack London knew “bastard wolves”

December 5, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 4 Comments

Alabama wolf hybrid baby killing:  Jack London knew "bastard wolves" CHELSEA, Alabama––Amid stonewalling by the Shelby County Coroner,  Shelby County Sheriff’s Department,  and family of the victim,  strong circumstantial evidence including matching photographs and property descriptions suggests … [Read More...]

Jeffrey Thomas book review.

Money, power, & farmed animal advocacy: Jeff Thomas tells all

The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy,  & The Fight to End Factory Farming in America by Jeff Thomas Lantern Publishing & Media,  P.O. Box 1350,  Woodstock,  NY 12498 200 pages;  $19.95 paperback. www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Former Humane Society of the United States [HSUS] policy analyst Jeff Thomas has previously been mentioned in … [Read More...]

Wolverines in the snow.

Wolverines, known for tenacity, win federal protection after 48-year fight

Stop trapping & wolverines could probably restore themselves WASHINGTON D.C.––Usually there is little to celebrate about an animal becoming officially recognized as a threatened species,  but wolverines,  recognized as “threatened” by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on November 29,  2023,  present a rare exception. Had science prevailed instead of politics,  wolverines would have been … [Read More...]

Wayne Hsiung in jail.

Farmed animal advocate Wayne Hsiung gets 90 days; Canada gets ag gag

Likely to lose at COP28 climate conference,  Big Meat agribusiness celebrates killing the messengers SANTA ROSA,  California;  OTTAWA,  Canada––Big Meat agribusiness took a beating on the morning of November 30,  2023 in Dubai,  United Emirates,  at the opening of the COP28 United Nations conference on climate change. By afternoon,  though,  Big Meat agribusiness was celebrating both a 90-day … [Read More...]

Ozone layer with Farm animals.

COP28 conference on global warming expected to tell world to eat less meat

Recommendation to eat less meat may be the most substantive outcome of a United Nations conference on global warming since the COP conference series began DUBAI,  United Arab Emirates––A global assembly of COP-rolites including an unprecedentedly large delegation representing the meat and livestock industries are gathered in Dubai for COP28,  the twenty-eighth annual Conference Of the Parties to … [Read More...]

Game cock smoking Marijuana. Cockfighting.

Cockfighting led to “The Pike County Massacre” but mini-series misses the point

One cockfighting family killed another             CINCINNATI,  Ohio––There appeared to be no doubt in the minds of previewers of The Pike County Massacre,  a three-part Oxygen mini-series that premiered on November 24 and November 25,  2023,  as to just what led to the eight murders the series described. “Center to the case,”  wrote Peter White of Deadline.com,  “was the presence of marijuana … [Read More...]

Israeli soldiers with their K-9.

Food scarcity hits Gaza dogs & cats; Hamas alleges dogs are eating the dead

The Gaza dogs are hungry,  but are they hungry enough yet to eat people? NUSEIRAT, Gaza;  RAMAT GAN,  Israel––Claims that starving Gaza street dogs are eating unburied victims of the Israel/Gaza war are helping to fuel controversy over the Israeli Defense Force response to the October 7,  2023 Hamas terrorist attacks. The claims may be at least half true:  some street dogs in Gaza are … [Read More...]

Crowd throwing rocks at a dog.

Rabid kitten & dog jeopardize eradication success stories in U.S. & India

Apparently isolated cases,  but both rabies outbreaks came where they should not have  OMAHA,  Nebraska;  CHENNAI, India––Recent discoveries of a rabid kitten in east-central Omaha,  Nebraska,  and a rabid dog in Royapuram,  a northern suburb of Chennai,  India,  indicate threats to two of the most influential rabies eradication success stories anywhere,  ever. The rabid kitten,  discovered on … [Read More...]

Canine influenza illness

Mystery diseases hit dogs, cats, sea lions––are birds the missing link?

H5N1 avian flu,  a virus,  has hit all of the outbreak areas,  but many of the mystery infections appear to be bacterial SPOKANE,  Washington;  SAN DIEGO,  California;  LONDON,  U.K.;  LIMA, Peru––Fall is the flu season,  for humans and animals. Therefore,  just because mysterious new flu-like diseases in dogs,  cats,  and marine mammals are appearing coincidental with global outbreaks of H5N1 … [Read More...]

M44 coyote killer from Bureau of Land Management

BLM bans cyanide-shooting “coyote-getters,” but keeps it very quiet

Bureau of Land Management hid the announcement––why? WASHINGTON, D.C.––Has Bureau of Land Management director Tracy Stone-Manning really banned the use of M-44 “coyote getter” cyanide-shooting traps on BLM lands? “Yes,  it’s real,”  Predator Defense Fund president Brooks Fahey assured ANIMALS 24-7 late on November 24,  2023,  providing an unpublicized link to confirmation at … [Read More...]

What Wayne Hsiung, Mercy for Animals, & others did for Thanksgiving

"Open rescues,"  closed jail cells,  undercover video,  & two challenges to "ag gags" in Canada             SANTA ROSA & LOS ANGELES,  California––Mass media food sections,  as always,  fixated during the run-up to Thanksgiving 2023 on how best to roast turkeys. Vegan and vegetarian media comparably focused on promoting plant-based alternatives to turkey dinners Direct Action … [Read More...]

More than a Meal book by author Karen Davis

More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis

First condemned,  then pardoned,  without a statement of rights  (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) WASHINGTON D.C.­­––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 20,  2023 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on … [Read More...]

Turkey sacrifices humans by Beth Clifton

The “Thanksgiving” turkey:  object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice

Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D.,  president, United Poultry Concerns (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) “Nothing so unites us as gathering with one mind to murder someone we hate, unless it is coming together to share in a meal.” – Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner, p. 33. The … [Read More...]

Grey2k Brooklyn book review.

How global campaign against greyhound racing got to the home stretch

Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog that Inspired a Movement by Christine A. Dorchak & Carey Theil 224 pages.  $8.99 Kindle;  $17.96 paperback. Lantern Publishing & Media,  P.O. Box 1350,  Woodstock,  NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don’t judge this book by the cover.  The pastel painting of a greyhound on the cover … [Read More...]

Young Palestinian boy plays with street dogs. (Sulala photo)

Animal rescuers try to stay alive in Gaza & in Hamas terrorists’ hands

Searching for the missing & trying to feed the found NUSEIRAT, Gaza;  RAMAT GAN,  Israel––Forty-five days since Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis,  foreign visitors,  and foreign farm workers in a October 7,  2023 dawn sneak attack on kibbutz collective farms and an outdoor concert venue,  abducting about 250 more,  Let The Animals Live in Ramat Gan,  Israel is still trying to … [Read More...]

No kill animal shelter.

Squishy shelter numbers conceal dropping the ball on spay/neuter

How much real progress toward eradicating cat & dog overpopulation has been lost through a focus on the wrong bottom line? (Gerry Childs,  now retired from a long career in sales in many different parts of the U.S.,  recently celebrated 50 years of volunteering at every stop for animal shelters,  spay/neuter projects,  and feral cat neuter/return programs.) I have been troubled for some time … [Read More...]

Makah whaling and totem

Feds give Makah tribe the go-ahead to kill gray whales again

NOAA issues Final Environmental Impact Statement,  the last legal obstacle between gray whales & Makah harpoons & bullets SEATTLE,  Washington––An early 2024 resumption of gray whale killing by the Makah tribe of Neah Bay,  Washington,  seems all but assured after the November 17,  2023 publication of a 2,364-page Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Makah Tribe Request to Hunt … [Read More...]

Korean dog meat market.

South Korean government pledges dog-eating will be banned by 2027

Governing party and leading opposition party both favor banning dog consumption SEOUL, South Korea––Dog-eating in South Korea appears likely to be banned after January 1,  2027. “In a special consultative meeting at the National Assembly,”  reported Lee Jaeeun for the Korea Herald on November 17,  2023,   “the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and officials of the ruling People Power Party agreed … [Read More...]

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  • So is cruelty to animals more a part of Hispanic heritage than Catholicism?
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  • Alabama wolf hybrid baby killing: Jack London knew “bastard wolves”
  • Money, power, & farmed animal advocacy: Jeff Thomas tells all
  • Wolverines, known for tenacity, win federal protection after 48-year fight
  • Farmed animal advocate Wayne Hsiung gets 90 days; Canada gets ag gag
  • COP28 conference on global warming expected to tell world to eat less meat
  • Cockfighting led to “The Pike County Massacre” but mini-series misses the point
  • Food scarcity hits Gaza dogs & cats; Hamas alleges dogs are eating the dead
  • Rabid kitten & dog jeopardize eradication success stories in U.S. & India
  • Mystery diseases hit dogs, cats, sea lions––are birds the missing link?
  • BLM bans cyanide-shooting “coyote-getters,” but keeps it very quiet
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  • More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
  • The “Thanksgiving” turkey:  object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice
  • How global campaign against greyhound racing got to the home stretch
  • Animal rescuers try to stay alive in Gaza & in Hamas terrorists’ hands
  • Squishy shelter numbers conceal dropping the ball on spay/neuter
  • Feds give Makah tribe the go-ahead to kill gray whales again
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