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Rodeo: busting up the animals in Nativity scenes in the name of Jesus Christ

January 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Eric Mills,  coordinator,  Action for Animals,  Oakland,  California “Cowboys,  sensing—like gorillas—that their time has passed,  cling ever more desperately to anachronistic styles, not willing to admit that the myth has degenerated,  the traditions eroded to a point where attempting to sustain them falls somewhere between silliness and the outright ridiculous.” ––Larry McMurtry in the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Cowboys for Christ, Di Evans, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, Gavin Ehringer, Joan Burbick, Larry McMurtry, Louise Serpa, PRCA, T.K. Hardy

E.O. Wilson, counter-evolutionary “evolutionary biologist,” dies at 92

December 29, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

E.O. Wilson considered himself the Charles Darwin of our time,  but contradicted many basic Darwinian precepts Edward Osborne Wilson,  92,  better known as E.O. Wilson,  died on December 26,  2021 in Burlington, Massachusetts,  16 miles north of Cambridge,  where he was for 46 years a star member of the Harvard University biology faculty. Wilson was perhaps […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Christianity, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Insects, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Anne Ehrlich, Charles Darwin, Deborah Gordon, James Watson, Lynn Margulis, Mary Midgely, Merritt Clifton, Niles Eldridge, Paul Ehrlich, Stephen Jay Gould

The animal rights movement is divided on abortion, by Vasu Murti

December 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Even PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk admits “We’re divided” The long-awaited introduction of RU-486-based contraceptive dog and cat food has been delayed for at least 36 years,  and may have been permanently forestalled by the use of RU-486 as Mifrepristone,  the drug used to medically induce abortion,  as ANIMALS 24-7 recently detailed in What RU-486 means […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Andrew Linzey, Cesar Chavez, Charles Camosy, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Gregory, Frank Hoffman, Ingrid Newkirk, James Dawson, Kristen Day, Mary Eberstadt

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

April 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Gavin Ehringer, Jim Mason, Merritt Clifton, misothery, Niles Eldridge, Peter Singer, Stephen Jay Gould

 “Cleansing the temple was an act of animal liberation” says Bible scholar

December 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living & Nonviolence In Early Christianity by Keith Akers Lantern Books  (128 2nd Place,  Garden Suite Brooklyn, NY 11231),  2001.  260 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Denver vegetarian advocate Keith Akers, perhaps best known for compiling A Vegetarian Sourcebook (1983), earned his B.A. in philosophy in 1970 at […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Humane history, Islam, Judaism, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: al-Ghazali, Keith Akers, Merritt Clifton, Pope Francis

Ice age rock art find exposes nearly 200 years of horse manure

December 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

The discovery does not improve  the case for horses having survived the Ice Ages in the Americas CHIRIBIQUETTE NATIONAL PARK, Colombia––Images of ice age horses,  among thousands of other animals painted along an eight-mile mural of rock art recently found in southern Colombia,  have revived hopes among wild horse advocates––and Mormon literalists––that horses somehow remained […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife

Poland moves to ban fur farms & kosher/halal meat exports––why?

September 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Proposed law may be more about Catholic nationalist politics,  anti-Semitism,  and COVID-19 than about concern for animals             WARSAW, Poland––Is a new omnibus animal protection law recently proposed in Poland really all about animals,  driven in part by concern that mink farming may be a reservoir for the pandemic COVID-19 coronavirus? Or is the proposed […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Poultry, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Ben Cohen, Bogna Wiltowska, Herve Bercovier, Jarosław Kaczyński, Lech Kaczyński, Merritt Clifton, Slawomir Sierakowski, Witold Waszczykowski, Yardena Schwartz

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

The Thanksgiving Turkey as Ritual Scapegoat

November 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

in the Carnivalesque Tradition by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Human radical abuse of “food” animals cannot be explained by economic efficiency alone. It is also an outgrowth of attitudes humans have had toward nonhuman animals through the ages,  rooted in our resentment at being animals,  which we project onto them. In his […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin

The dolphin stories that made two authors famous

December 30, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Build Me An Ark:  A Life With Animals,  by Brenda Peterson WW. Norton (500 5th Ave.,  New York,  NY  10110-0017),  2000.  256 pages,  hardcover.  $23.95. Journey Of The Pink Dolphin:  An Amazon Quest,  by Sy Montgomery Simon & Schuster (1230 Ave. of the Americas,  New York,  NY  10020),  2000.  320 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00. Reviewed by […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Marine mammals, Religion & philosophy, Seals, South America, The Americas, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Birute Galdikas, Brenda Peterson, Dian Fossey, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jane Goodall, Jane Werner, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Richard Scarry, Sy Montgomery

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