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USDA proposes to cover birds under the Animal Welfare Act––sort of

April 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Disease outbreaks afflicting poultry producers lend regulatory urgency to protecting birds––some birds,  anyhow––that 50 years of activism did not WASHINGTON D.C.––The worst outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza on record,  ravaging European flocks both wild and domestic since 2020,  now killing birds by the million in poultry barns,  especially in the upper Midwest,  may soon help […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Turkeys, Uncategorized, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: H5N1, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifto, pinioning, Sara Amundson, USDA-APHIS

H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge

March 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide             AMES,  Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds,  wild or domestic,  to beware of the first outbreak of High […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, Chickens, China, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: cockfighters, foie gras, Ian Brown, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, United Poultry Concerns

Dog breed census 2021: Labs, hounds top list; pit bulls come in third

July 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The real “face of America’s dog” is not much different from 1900-1950,  even if pit bulls are more abundant If someone wrote the sort of demonstrable nonsense about the relative popularity of automobile makes that a fellow named Brett Bachman published on Salon.com on July 4,  2021 about dog demographics,  that essay would likely never […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Pigeon flying, USA Tagged With: Brett Bachman, Christian M. Wade, Cuban bloodhound, French bulldog, Great Dane, Lassie, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin

Don’t know pigeons from bowling balls? Among pigeon rollers, you’ll fit right in

November 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Local humane society says nothing             ESSEX,  Ontario––Why has the Harrow Fair,  the official fair of Essex County,  Ontario,  elected to become internationally notorious for promoting so-called “parlor pigeons” as “the bowling balls of the avian world?” Why has the county allowed it? Why did the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society say and do nothing about it […]

Filed Under: Birds, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Pigeon flying, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Akber Khan, Bob Salinger, Charles Darwin, Jo Blum, Luke Korcok, Merritt Clifton, Ted Foreman

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