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So is cruelty to animals more a part of Hispanic heritage than Catholicism?

December 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Cultural defenses of steer-tailing and bullfighting ignore both U.S. anti-cruelty laws and 456 years of Catholic prohibition             BELVIDERE,  Illinois;  LOS ANGELES,  California––Responded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi to the December 6,  2023 report Los Angeles council vote against rodeo opens new fight against charreada,  which also mentioned that a Boone County,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spain, Spectacles, Sports, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Alex Reed, Amy Meek, Boone County, Merritt Clifton, Michael A. Ogorzaly, Pope Pious V, Steve Hindi

Los Angeles council vote against rodeo opens new fight against charreada

December 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

Will the Los Angeles ordinance really stop steer-tailing & other rodeo mayhem? LOS ANGELES,  California;  BELVIDERE,  Illinois––The Los Angeles City Council on December 5,  2023 voted 14-0 to ban rodeos within the city,  nominally resolving a multi-year debate but actually referring the most heated issues to a three-member panel for further debate. (See Los Angeles […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, USA Tagged With: Bill Pickett Rodeo, Bob Blumenfeld, Eric Mills, Merritt Clifton, Monica Rodriguez, Peter Seidler, Steve Hindi

Money, power, & farmed animal advocacy: Jeff Thomas tells all

December 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 6 Comments

The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy,  & The Fight to End Factory Farming in America by Jeff Thomas Lantern Publishing & Media,  P.O. Box 1350,  Woodstock,  NY 12498 200 pages;  $19.95 paperback. www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Former Humane Society of the United States [HSUS] policy analyst Jeff Thomas has previously been mentioned […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Bruce Friedrich, Frank Perdue, Henry Spira, Leah Garcés, Lewis Bollard, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Milo Runkle

Farmed animal advocate Wayne Hsiung gets 90 days; Canada gets ag gag

December 1, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 5 Comments

Likely to lose at COP28 climate conference,  Big Meat agribusiness celebrates killing the messengers SANTA ROSA,  California;  OTTAWA,  Canada––Big Meat agribusiness took a beating on the morning of November 30,  2023 in Dubai,  United Emirates,  at the opening of the COP28 United Nations conference on climate change. By afternoon,  though,  Big Meat agribusiness was celebrating […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amy Soranno, Merritt Clifton, Nick Schafer, Reichardt Duck Farm, Sunrise Farms, Wayne Hsiung

Food scarcity hits Gaza dogs & cats; Hamas alleges dogs are eating the dead

November 28, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 6 Comments

The Gaza dogs are hungry,  but are they hungry enough yet to eat people? NUSEIRAT, Gaza;  RAMAT GAN,  Israel––Claims that starving Gaza street dogs are eating unburied victims of the Israel/Gaza war are helping to fuel controversy over the Israeli Defense Force response to the October 7,  2023 Hamas terrorist attacks. The claims may be […]

Filed Under: Cats, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Al Shifa, Jezebel, Merritt Clifton, Oketz, Saeed Al Err, Yonah Jeremy Bob

What Wayne Hsiung, Mercy for Animals, & others did for Thanksgiving

November 24, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

“Open rescues,”  closed jail cells,  undercover video,  & two challenges to “ag gags” in Canada             SANTA ROSA & LOS ANGELES,  California––Mass media food sections,  as always,  fixated during the run-up to Thanksgiving 2023 on how best to roast turkeys. Vegan and vegetarian media comparably focused on promoting plant-based alternatives to turkey dinners Direct Action […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amy Soranno, Ellen Kessler, Jared Polis, Marlon Reis, Merritt Clifton, Nick Schafer, Ronnika A. McFall

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

November 22, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

First condemned,  then pardoned,  without a statement of rights  (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) 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 20,  2023 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and […]

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

How global campaign against greyhound racing got to the home stretch

November 22, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog that Inspired a Movement by Christine A. Dorchak & Carey Theil 224 pages.  $8.99 Kindle;  $17.96 paperback. Lantern Publishing & Media,  P.O. Box 1350,  Woodstock,  NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don’t judge this book by the cover.  The pastel […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Brooklyn, Canidrome, Carey Theil, Christine Dorchak, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Animal rescuers try to stay alive in Gaza & in Hamas terrorists’ hands

November 21, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Searching for the missing & trying to feed the found NUSEIRAT, Gaza;  RAMAT GAN,  Israel––Forty-five days since Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis,  foreign visitors,  and foreign farm workers in a October 7,  2023 dawn sneak attack on kibbutz collective farms and an outdoor concert venue,  abducting about 250 more,  Let The Animals Live […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Let The Animals Live, Merritt Clifton, Saeed Al Err, Sulala Animal Rescue, Yotam Haim

Squishy shelter numbers conceal dropping the ball on spay/neuter

November 20, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

How much real progress toward eradicating cat & dog overpopulation has been lost through a focus on the wrong bottom line? (Gerry Childs,  now retired from a long career in sales in many different parts of the U.S.,  recently celebrated 50 years of volunteering at every stop for animal shelters,  spay/neuter projects,  and feral cat […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Bryan Kortis, Gary Michelson, Jeff Young, Petco, Ruth Steinberger

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