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Pain in my heart: Why the lack of attention to animal welfare in international development?

April 11, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Janice Cox The many ways in which the development of industrial animal agriculture harms humans, animals and the environment in developing nations have been subjects of concern to far-sighted thinkers for more than a century. The lineage of intellectual concern about such issues includes Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977), Barbara Ward (1914-1981), Lester Brown (1934-), Frances Moore Lappe […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Middle Right, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, North Africa, Opinion, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: Janice Cox, Livestock's Long Shadow, OIE

More medical warnings link dog meat to rabies

March 18, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

13 people ate meat from a rabid dog MANILA––Philippine, Chinese, and international public health media in mid-March 2015 warned that eating dogs can spread rabies, after at least 13 people ate meat from a rabid dog in Cabatangan village, Zamboanga, the Philippines. Summarized Robert Herriman of Outbreak News Today on March 15, 2015, from reports […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Food & agriculture, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Philippines, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Herman Wertheim, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail, Robert Herriman, Shamsudeen Fagbo, Zamboanga

Taiwan adopts plan to become no-kill nation by 2017

January 25, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Bans killing impounded dogs TAIPEI, Taiwan––The Taiwanese legislature, the Legislative Yuan, on January 24, 2015 adopted 25 revisions to the 1998 national Animal Protection Act that are intended to make Taiwan a no-kill nation. The revisions includes a ban on killing impounded dogs, to take effect in 2017. The ban resembles laws in effect in […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Taiwan Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Sean McCormack, Wu Hung

Fundraising, FADS, “dolphin safe,” & why Ric O’Barry left Earth Island Institute

December 23, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

The U.S. “dolphin safe” standard accepts the use of FADs at the expense of sharks, sea turtles, and many other marine species BERKELEY, OAKLAND––“FADs are bad,” says dolphin defender Ric O’Barry. By FADs, O’Barry means a fishing method so deadly that he believes it makes a travesty of “dolphin safe” tuna labeling. The U.S. “dolphin […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Left, Japan, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mexico, Pacific rim, Sea turtles, The Americas, Turtles, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: dolphin safe, Earth Island Institute, FADs, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry

The Ric O’Barry prequels to “The Cove” and “Blackfish”

December 17, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

To Free A Dolphin 2000.  269 pages,  hardcover.  $23.95. Behind The Dolphin Smile 1988, 2000. 300 pages, paperback. $15.95. Both by Ric O Barry with Keith Coulbourn Renaissance Books (5858 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90036.) Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry is now an internationally recognized film star,  through […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Japan, Marine life, Marine mammals, Pacific rim, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Behind the Dolphin Smile, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, To Free A Dolphin

Waiting for the Rising Sun: Ric O’Barry’s wish for 2015

December 17, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Ric O’Barry 16 December, 2014 It’s just after 5:30 a.m., local time in Taiji. I’m at the harbor now, waiting for the sun to rise. From the moment I leave my hotel, I am surrounded by police. I am glad they are here, as they’re professional, respectful and fair to both sides. It’s a […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Japan, Marine life, Marine mammals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pacific rim, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Ric O'Barry, Taiji

Defying International Court of Justice, Japan announces plan to kill another 4,000 whales in the name of research

November 22, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Japan Fisheries Agency proposes to kill 333 minke whales per year          TOKYO––Defying a March 2014 ruling by the International Court of Justice and a September 2014 International Whaling Commission resolution,   the Japanese government on November 18, 2014 announced that it intends to resume so-called “research whaling” in Antarctic waters during the winter of 2015-2016. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Feature Home Middle Right, Japan, Marine life, Pacific rim, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Institute for Cetacean Research, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, toothfish, Whaling

“Crush video” makers get life in prison

October 7, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Victor & Chita Dorma Ridon convicted             MANILA––“Crush video” makers Victor Ridon and Chita Dorma Ridon, his wife, were on September 28, 2014 convicted of human trafficking and sentenced to life in prison in the northern Philippines city of San Fernando. The life sentences stood in stark contrast to the failure of Miami-Dade prosecutors to […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Laws & politics, Pacific rim, Philippines, Screen industry, USA Tagged With: Adam Redford, Chita Dorma Ridon, Merritt Clifton, Victor Ridon

Post-Fukushima lawsuit may reshape the politics of animal welfare in Japan

September 8, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Repercussions for animals continue             TOKYO––Aftershocks from the March 11, 2011 earthquake that devastated the Tohoku region of Japan long since faded into occasional tremors. Debris from the tsunami that followed has mostly been cleared away, except in the no-man’s-land surrounding the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor complex. But repercussions for animals continue, including the rise […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Disasters, Japan, Pacific rim

South Korean activists protest against eating dogs during Papal visit

September 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

  In South Korea,  not only are many Catholic priests fans of dog meat,  they often encourage their congregation to go out and eat dog meat and even sell dog meat at their church bazaars. Fed up with their hypocrisy, members of several animal rights groups in South Korea protested on August 18,  2014 when […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Food, Letters, Meat issues, Opinions & Letters, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, South Korea, Uses of dogs Tagged With: April Kim, Pope Francis

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