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Starring Miyoko Schinner in “The Decline & Fall of the Dairy Empire”

March 5, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alaric the Visigoth, Anna Starostinetskaya, Dan Buckstaff, Lisa Bloom, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko's Creamery

Dog pack killing of 4-year-old, caught on video, shows need for ABC

March 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Breeding, Cultural, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Organizations, Politics, Population control, Rabies, Street dogs Tagged With: Amberpet, Animal Birth Control, Bareilly, Chinny Krishna, Hyderabad, Merritt Clifton

How Miyoko Schinner got the same shaft as Paul Watson

February 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

With vegan grease (See also Canned Miyoko: the ballad of Jon Blair & Miyoko Schinner.) The recent ouster of Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner from the vegan food company she founded in 2014 will come as no surprise to longtime Australian vegan activist Phil Wollen. Indeed,  Wollen,  also a former Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: lion-tamer, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko Schinner, Paul Watson, Phil Wollen, Sea Shepherd

Veguary re-introduces Afro-Americans to plant-based eating

February 2, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

“Prominent throughout the African Diaspora for centuries” BALTIMORE, Maryland––Afro-Vegan Society founder Brenda Sanders on February 1,  2023 commenced the organization’s third annual Veguary campaign,  “providing culturally relevant content on plant-based eating during Black History Month. “Throughout the month of February,”  Sanders explained,  “the Afro-Vegan Society will host free programming that includes daily social media content,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Afro-Vegan Society, Aunt Jemima, Brenda Sanders, Dick Gregory, George Washington Carver, Pinky Cole, Slutty Vegan, Tabitha Bonita Brown, Tracye McQuirter

Roberta Kalechofsky, 90, interpreted Judaism in animal rights context

January 29, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Took up animal advocacy in mid-career as author & publisher Roberta Kalechofsky,  90,  author,  animal advocate,  educator,  historian,  and publisher,   died on April 5,  2022 in hospice care in Chelsea,  Massachusetts,  near her longtime home in Marblehead,  Massachusetts. ANIMALS 24-7,  unfortunately,  only learned of her death on January 26,  2023,  necessitating this late obituary. Valued […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Judaism, Lab animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Recipes, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Charles Patterson, Jews for Animal Rights, Merritt Clifton, Micah Press, Richard H. Schwartz, Robert Kalechofsky

Who shot pregnant harbor seals? Thomas Sewid encouraged it.

January 27, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Seal hater even buys ammo for seal killers             DINES POINT, Washington––Who apparently cruised along the east shore of Whidbey Island,  Washington,  shotgunning pregnant harbor seals on or about January 24,  2023 is as yet officially unknown. ANIMALS 24-7 spent much of January 26,  2023 examining the bloated,  eagle-pecked remains of harbor seal victims,  and […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Meat issues, Native American beliefs, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sea otters, Seals, The Americas, U.S., USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Becca Jaffe, Beth Clifton, Dines Point, Merritt Clifton, Pacific Balance Marine Management, Pacific Balance Pinniped Society

“Cage-free” fire that killed 400,000 hens is subject of $25 million lawsuit

January 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Building barn that burned was praised as “victory” by then-Humane Society of U.S. brass BLOOMFIELD,  Nebraska––A February 27,  2020 barn fire that killed 400,000 hens is now the subject of a $25 million lawsuit filed by the Rhode Island-based Factory Mutual Insurance Company against the barn builder,  Henning Companies LLC of Johnston,  Iowa. ANIMALS 24-7 […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Factory Mutual Insurance, Margie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Waldbaum

Sea pen fish farming ordered to cease along entire U.S. west coast

November 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Washington forced shutdown follows bans in California,  Oregon,  & Alaska OLYMPIA,  Washington––Sea pen fish farming––if Cooke Aquaculture complies with a November 18,  2022 order from Washington state public lands commissioner Hilary Franz––is within two weeks of abolition along the entire west coast of the United States. The Franz order,  unfortunately,  may not be a win […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cooke Aquaculture, Hilary Franz, Hope Island, Merritt Clifton, Rich Passage

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

November 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

First condemned,  then pardoned,  without a statement of rights  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 21,  2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Joe Biden, John Kullberg, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

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

November 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D.,  president, United Poultry Concerns   “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 […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Turkeys Tagged With: Eli Sagan, Karen Davis, Margaret Visser, Matt Novak

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