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“Greatest anti-soring advocate of all time” Clant Seay dies at 76

March 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Walking horse defender BillyGoboy never slowed down in fight against the “Big Lickers”             OXFORD,  Mississippi––Citizens Committee Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay,  76,  remembered by fellow campaigner Marty Irby as “quite a character and in my opinion the greatest anti-soring advocate of all time,”  died on March 6,  2023 in Oxford,  Mississippi. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Show, USA Tagged With: Gen's Ice Glimmer, James Meredith, Keith Dane, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Ole Miss, Roy Exum, Tawny Preisner

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

Why no buzz about Charles Henry Turner, even in Black History Month?

February 15, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Turner had no laboratory & no lab animals for most of his career,  but proved Charles Darwin was right about animal sentience CINCINNATI,  Ohio––Why is there still no buzz about pioneering animal intelligence researcher Charles Henry Turner’s discoveries,  even in Black History Month? 100 years after Turner died,  on Valentine’s Day 1923,  at only 56 […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Insects, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Darwin T. Turner, E.O. Wilson, Galpayage Dona, Hiruni Samadi, Lars Chittka, Thomas Lovejoy

“Stop torturing baby monkeys!” Harvard Animal Law Clinic tells Harvard Med

February 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Maternal deprivation experiments by neurobiologist Margaret S. Livingstone evoke nightmares of Harry Harlow             CAMBRIDGE,  Massachusetts––Multi-millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health funding allocated to Harvard Medical School maternal deprivation researcher Margaret S. Livingstone were on February 8,  2023 challenged by more than 380 scientists,  medical doctors,  and other academic researchers rallied behind Harvard […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cat Hobaiter, Harry Harlow, Margaret Livingstone, Merritt Clifton, New England Primate Research Center, Richard Wrangham, Sarah Pickering, Stephen Suomi

Why did the ASPCA pres get $966,004, while we got $9.70 an hour?

January 31, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

We are NOT the ASPCA!!! This is an exposé (and appeal) that Beth & I really did not want to have to write,  but one of our faithful & reliable donors of $8.00 per month persuaded us that we had to –– because donors like her,  for the most part,  are paying not only for […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Beth Clifton, Cleveland Amory, Fred Myer, Henry Spira, Matthew Bershadker, Merritt Clifton

Conservatism, the religious right, & the evolution of anti-vivisectionism

January 17, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

The right & left hands of anti-vivisectionism have rarely known what each other were doing Included in the recent ANIMALS 24-7 article What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was a mention that during King’s lifetime,  1929-1968,  “Anti-vivisection activism had become co-opted by the radical right and was seemingly intertwined […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Caroline Earle White, Charles Darwin, Christine Stevens, Cleveland Amory, Louis Pasteur, Rene Descartes

What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 16, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Leading influence on rise of animal rights movement Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, in whose honor we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, never had any visible direct involvement with animals or animal issues––but he is justly remembered among the greatest influences on the animal rights movement of our time, and the many […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Coretta Scott King, Henry Spira, Martin Luther King Jr.

Four black leaders who built the humane movement––long before MLK!

January 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Long before Martin Luther King Jr. had his enduring influence,  more people recognized William Key,  John W. Lemon,  Richard Carroll,  & F. Rivers Barnwell in their own time than would have recognized ASPCA founder Henry Bergh              INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––“I am the only colored speaker on the program,  and in fact I have not seen a […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Beautiful Jim, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, Janet M. Davis, John W. Lemon, Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, MLK, Richard Carroll, William Key

Black humane history found in great-grandpa’s attic near a town called Ark

January 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Letters and a map document humane & racial justice movements that pointed the way for Martin Luther King Jr. ARK, Virginia––Bus driver Alan Lemon,  then 59,  hoped to find antiques that might be sold online in 2018 when he and a friend decided to explore the attic of his great grandfather John W. Lemon’s long […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animism & Santeria, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Iceland, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alan Lemon, Eric H. Hansen, Francis Rowley, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, George Thorndike Angell, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, Seymour Carroll, William Alan Swallow

International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87

December 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt             CAPE COD,  Massachusetts––Brian Davies,  87,  founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare,  Network for Animals,  the Political Animal Lobby,  and Animal Survival International,  died after a prolonged illness on December 27,  2022. Born on February 4,  1935 in Tonyrefail,  Wales,  an impoverished mining village,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Marine life, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Pacific rim, Philippines, Religion & philosophy, Seals, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife Tagged With: Anne Doncaster, Anne Streeter, Brigitte Bardot, Gloria Davies, Harry Rowsell, IFAW, International Wildlife Coaliton, Jill Robinson, Merritt Clifton, Paul Seigel, Stephen Best, Tom Hughes

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