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Animal Agriculture is Immoral: vegan activists respond to COVID-19

January 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 4 Comments

Anthology edited by Sailesh Rao, Ph.D. 156 pages,  paperback.  $9.99 from Amazon.com. Reviewed by Richard Schwartz             Animal Agriculture Is Immoral is an anthology of scholarly,  insightful, thought-provoking essays from environmental, social, religious, and spiritual perspectives by leading vegan activists,  assembled in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  about the very negative effects of animal-based […]

Filed Under: Activism, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Food, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brandon Burr, Dan Book, David Rosen, Duke McLeod, Hope Bohanec, Jason Glasson, Jeffrey Spitz Cohen, Judy Carman, Karen Davis, Lewis Regenstein, Richard H. Schwartz, Sailesh Rao, Shmuly Yanklowitz, Stephen Kaufman, Susan Hargreave, Victoria Moran, Will Tuttle, Yonatan Neril

Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

November 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Paul Obis, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

Philadelphia apologizes for killing African-American animal advocates

November 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

What if the MOVE cofounders had attended Cambridge,  or the Best Friends Animal Society cofounders had come from inner Philadelphia? PHILADELPHIA,  Pennsylvania;  KANAB,  Utah––The Philadelphia City Council on November 12,  2020 formally apologized for the May 13,  1985 bombing of a row house compound that killed 11 members of MOVE,  an inner city cult whose […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Delbert Africa, Gregory Castle, John Africa, Mary Ann deGrimston, Merritt Clifton, Michael Mountain, Ramona Africa

Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too

November 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban,  & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor             BERKELEY,  DENVER,  NEW YORK CITY––While the races for the U.S. Presidency,  control of the Senate and House of Representatives grip the nation on Election Day 2020,  animal […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Aidan Hill, Allie Feldman Taylor, Frances Dinkelspiel, Merritt Clifton, Michael B. Hancock, Wayne Hsiung

Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace

October 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Donors ignored years of warnings about convict turned “rescue” celebrity LOS ANGELES––Marc Ching,  who in November 2018 offered to sell the city of Los Angeles vegan food for impounded dogs at a substantial discount,  is reportedly to be arraigned in December 2020 on one misdemeanor count each of practicing veterinary medicine without a license,  false advertising,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cambodia, China, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Indonesia, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alene Tchekmedyian, George Knowles, Jeffrey Beri, John Dalley, Marc Ching, Martyn Stewart, Merritt Clifton, Paul Pringle, Phyllis Daugherty

A challenge to Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, & “A chicken in every pot”

September 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

70 Members of Congress & United Poultry Concerns ask VP candidates to address global warming & meat             SALT LAKE CITY, Utah––Will the October 7,  2020 debate between Republican vice president Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential challenger Kamala Harris bring the first direct challenge in 92 years to the political promise of putting a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disease, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Aiden Cook, Al Gore, Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover, Kamala Harris, Karen Davis, Mike Pence

Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse

September 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, The Americas, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Anita Krajnc, Barry Kent MacKay, Marc Bekoff, Mark Powell, Merritt Clifton, Regan Russell, Tita Zed

Slaughter workers, animals, & advocates: can there be justice for all?

July 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Karen Davis, Laura Alexander, Martha Rosenberg, Virgil Butler

Vigil for vegetarian Elijah McClain, allegedly killed by police in Aurora, Colorado

June 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Elijah McClain, Jason Rosenblatt, Jennifer Cashman, Luther Bell, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Woodyard, Patrick Ryan, Randy Roedema, Sheneed McClain

COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food

April 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But preserving profits, “red state” votes,  and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern             SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28,  2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Dave Dreeszen, Donald Trump, Esther Mechler, John Tyson, Merritt Clifton, Roger Witherspoon

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