"Denies that the company had proprietary recipes" in response to lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO, California––Vegan cheesemaker Miyoko Schinner, in her newly filed response to the Miyoko’s Creamery lawsuit against her for allegedly stealing trade secrets, “denies that the Company has any true ‘trade … [Read More...]
Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?
1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories, the U.S. Fish & … [Read More...]
One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon
by Roger Witherspoon (Roger Witherspoon, a member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors, has reported about environmental issues for more than 50 years; developed the global Save The Tiger program for the Exxon Corporation; and cofounded the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, the … [Read More...]
Audubon: brand recognition trumps what J.J. Audubon actually did
National Audubon Society squirms against truth that J.J. Audubon bought & sold slaves, robbed graves, shot birds with no thought of conservation, & was a scientific fraud NEW YORK CITY––The National Audubon Society board of directors on March 15, 2023 voted to retain the Audubon name, but the vote scarcely ends nearly two years of growing discomfort within the organization about the … [Read More...]
Charles River Labs sending bootlegged macaques back to traffickers
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals & Born Free USA sanctuary offer snubbed HOUSTON, Texas––If 1,000 juvenile long-tailed macaques held in Houston at this writing by Charles River Laboratories had the rights of humans, they would either be returned to their homes in the wild in Cambodia or be granted asylum as refugees. If the young long-tailed macaques were treated as inanimate … [Read More...]
Kangaroo leather soccer shoes get the boot from Puma & Nike
Pumas do not hunt kangaroos anyhow BEAVERTON, Oregon––Pumas, native to almost all of the Americas, do not hunt kangaroos, native only to Australia. Neither will kangaroos be hunted any longer to supply the German sportswear manufacturer Puma with their hides, the Puma company has announced. Nor will kangaroo hides be impaled on Nike spikes, the Nike company responded to the Puma … [Read More...]
“Greatest anti-soring advocate of all time” Clant Seay dies at 76
Walking horse defender BillyGoboy never slowed down in fight against the "Big Lickers" OXFORD, Mississippi––Citizens Committee Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay, 76, remembered by fellow campaigner Marty Irby as “quite a character and in my opinion the greatest anti-soring advocate of all time,” died on March 6, 2023 in Oxford, Mississippi. Hospitalized for … [Read More...]
Beagler fined $10,000––for wildlife trafficking, not for torturing hares
Allegedly hired Maine trappers to supply Massachusetts field trials PORTLAND, Maine––Jon Thomas Rioux, 36, a landscaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, entertained himself and friends for years by setting beagles on snowshoe hares, until, apparently running out of rabbits locally, he ventured more than 150 miles north into Maine to find more. Jon Thomas Rioux might have … [Read More...]
Riverside County, California extends lead in fatal dog attacks
Joe Cleveland Scott & Mateo Salvador were 10th U.S. dog attack fatalities in 10 weeks JURUPA VALLEY, California; McDONALD CHAPEL, Alabama––As of the moment, ANIMALS 24-7 has discovered little about the lives of Joe Cleveland Scott, 73, of McDonald Chapel, Alabama, just outside Birmingham, and Mateo Lucas Salvador, 42, of Jurupa Valley, California, in Riverside County. Scott and … [Read More...]
Death by Pit Bull: Bred to Kill, by Richard W. Morris, J.D., Ph.D.
$9.95 paperback, $2.99 Kindle A 52-second video trailer is live on: YouTube https://youtu.be/mrE1-bM_tdk Rumble https://rumble.com/v2a7ztq-death-by-pit-bull.html Bit Chute https://www.bitchute.com/video/DzP2jI9g2OSu/ Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “My history with pit bulls goes back to 1990,” retired San Diego and Tucson prosecutor Richard W. Morris opens in Death by Pit … [Read More...]
Crocodile tears in the monkey labs as Charles River suspends imports
Charles River is latest monkey supplier named in wild-caught macaque smuggling case BETHESDA, Maryland––Laboratory monkey users and investors in the laboratory monkey business are shedding crocodile tears to mass media about an alleged monkey shortage jeopardizing public health by delaying approval of new drugs and medical procedures. No less an authority than the National Institutes of … [Read More...]
Starring Miyoko Schinner in “The Decline & Fall of the Dairy Empire”
The Romans imagine they are still in charge while the Visigoths & Ostrogoths fight over the spoils of conquest SAN FRANCISCO, California––Imagine the U.S. dairy industry as the Roman empire, Miyoko Schinner as Alaric the Visigoth, who sacked Rome in 410 A.D., and the venture capitalists who ousted her from Miyoko’s Creamery in a recent hostile takeover as the rival Ostrogoths. History … [Read More...]
Dog pack killing of 4-year-old, caught on video, shows need for ABC
20 years of India's national Animal Birth Control program helps to quell rabies, but not to reduce dog attacks, because feeders continue to concentrate dogs in problematic places HYDERABAD, India––Video security cameras set up above a car repair garage in Amberpet, a 250-year-old suburb of 425-year-old Hyderabad, India, on February 19, 2023 shocked the nation and much of the rest of the … [Read More...]
Advocate for shooting seals turns to pushing hunt for Sasquatch
But seals are still getting shot GREENBANK, Washington––The hunt for whoever is shooting harbor seals, apparently from a boat, along the west side of Whidbey Island, Washington, intertwines with the hunt for the mythical Sasquatch, but no, Sasquatch is not shooting seals, nor is Sasquatch in any danger of being shot. Yet another young female harbor seal, possibly killed by a deer slug … [Read More...]
Range war over diversity, equity, & inclusion in wildlife management
Hunting groups quit Colorado Outdoor Partnership DENVER, Colorado––A fiery exchange of words between aging free-range cattle rancher Rufus Ryker and homesteader Joe Starrett in the 1953 classic western film Shane almost summarized the culture war currently raging over Colorado wildlife management, even though neither wolves nor diversity, equity, and inclusion were ever mentioned. Indeed, … [Read More...]
Pit bull mauling death of Ramon Najera, 81, shocks San Antonio
Two witnesses caught pit bull attack on Najera, wife, & firefighters on video SAN ANTONIO, Texas––Posted Silvia Paola Hernandez, 36, to Facebook on February 24, 2023, with video clips of the fatal mauling of Ramon Najera, 81, and the frantic attempts of firefighters and a neighbor to save him: “This just happened @ 2810 Depla off of Cupples in San Antonio Texas.” The San Antonio … [Read More...]
North Carolina “ag-gag” law fails in U.S. Court of Appeals
Two of three judges find that the North Carolina Property Protection Act violates the First Amendment RICHMOND, Virginia––A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on February 23, 2023 struck down the portions of the North Carolina ag-gag law most applicable to undercover investigations by animal advocates. The highly technical 2-1 verdict left intact … [Read More...]
Is wind power blowing away whales along the Atlantic coast?
Hot air from renewable energy foes is not supported by science POINT PLEASANT, New Jersey––There were no offshore wind turbines operating off the Atlantic coast of the United States in 2016, just a lot of routine commercial shipping, fishing, and recreational boating. Hardly anyone seemed to care when the National Oceanic Administration [NOAA] Office of Protected Resources … [Read More...]
Would you shoot bison for scratching their butts on your house?
Bison leaving Yellowstone National Park looking for something to eat are shot in record numbers at the Montana border HELENA, Montana––With unusually heavy snow driving bison out of Yellowstone National Park into Montana in record numbers, and bison being killed in record numbers too for following their ancient migration route from the Rocky Mountains into the northern Great Plains, bison were … [Read More...]
Toledo pit bull advocate Bonnie Varnes, 58, killed by family pit bull
Took daughter's pit bull out; daughter's pit bull took her out TOLEDO, Ohio––Washington Local Schools bus driver Bonnie Varnes, 58, who prominently advocated for pit bulls on social media, was on February 20, 2023 killed by one of her daughter Amelia Brooke Varnes’s two pit bulls. Amina the pit bull was leashed as Bonnie Varnes took her outside, according to security video obtained by … [Read More...]