Not all social justice interests are compatible by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “It really does something to your mind when you stand there in all that blood, killing so many times, over and over again.” – Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse employee If I see or hear the word “meatpacking” one […]
Prince Charles, sea lice, & why salmon farming stinks
Norwegian investors hope to delouse the salmon industry with new facility in Maryland BALTIMORE, Maryland––Salmon farming stinks. Business media worldwide have for weeks failed to mention that fact in amplifying a July 7, 2020 announcement that the Norwegian firm AquaCon plans to build a $300 million land-based salmon farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake […]
Did Nagaland ban dog meat, or did a politician just repeat an empty promise?
Advocacy groups in 2020 again claim the same “victory” they claimed in 2016––which never happened KOHIMA, Nagaland, India––Two weeks after Nagaland chief secretary Temjen Toy on July 3, 2020 announced an impending ban on dog meat, in the last part of India where dogs had been legally eaten, how, when, and if the ban […]
Amazon et al may sell foie gras to Californians despite state ban, rules judge
2004 law prohibits sale but not purchase of product from tortured waterfowl LOS ANGELES, California––Foie gras, an oily spread made from the diseased livers of force-fed ducks and geese, may be legally purchased by Californians, but a 2004 state law prohibits selling it within California, Los Angeles U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled on […]
Vigil for vegetarian Elijah McClain, allegedly killed by police in Aurora, Colorado
Forced injection of ketamine may have stopped heart AURORA, Colorado––Mourners and protesters, including world-class violinists Ashanti Floyd and Lee England Jr., who flew in from New York City and Atlanta for the occasion, on June 27, 2020 played a variety of bowed instruments at City Center Park in Aurora, Colorado, in memory of Elijah McClain, […]
Scotland to stop shooting seals to save salmon farm profits––but not until 2021
50-year effort by Scottish seal defenders––but Humane Society of the U.S. blasts out media releases claiming credit DUMBARTON, Scotland––Culminating a half century of effort by the Save Our Seals Fund, and Animal Concern Scotland, led for decades by John Robins of both organizations, the Scottish Parliament on June 17, 2020 ratified a new Animals & Wildlife […]
Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse
Accident reprises 1995 death of British protester Jill Phipps BURLINGTON, Ontario––Regan Russell, 65, of Hamilton, Ontario, was on June 19, 2020 crushed to death by an 18-wheel livestock transport truck delivering pigs to slaughter at Fearman’s Pork Inc., the largest and oldest slaughterhouse in Ontario. A local landmark since 1852, and the scene of […]
Mink & pig massacres due to COVID-19 may help to kill fur & pork industries too
Netherlands may end fur farming four years before ban takes effect LIMBURG, Netherlands; SIOUX CITY, Iowa––The good news, if it could be called that, about the scheduled massacre of as many as 30,000 ranched mink on June 6, 2020 is that it may put 10 mink farms owned by eight companies permanently out of business, […]
Three-legged bears in the Great Smokies may be no accident
U.S. bear hunters & Asian gangsters cut paws & deals ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––Jody Williams and his Facebook group Help Asheville Bears want to catch the perp, or multiple perps, responsible for their recent discovery that at least 15 three-legged North American black bears are struggling for survival in the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains, […]
Why Europe will not eat U.S. & Australian wild horses
Dutch & Danish seizures of illegally trafficked German horse meat do not mean revived demand WASHINGTON D.C., BRUSSELS––Yes, the Bureau of Land Management under Donald Trump appointee William Perry Pendley is desperately eager to dispose of as many as 45,000 wild horses in holding pens, plus about 68,000 of the estimated 95,000 wild horses […]
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