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Animal & human heroes & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11

September 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering national trauma September 11,  2022 marks the twenty-first anniversary of the national trauma the U.S. experienced as result of the terrorist attacks of September 11,  2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The aftermath of those attacks brought global traumas including ongoing warfare in much of the Middle East,  Central Asia,  and […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: David Charlebois, Flight 77, Flight 93, Garo Alexanian, Merritt Clifton, North Shore Animal League, Osama bi Laden, Perry Fina, Suffolk County SPCA

Ram fighting charges out of history to butt civilization in the ass

July 18, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Gambling pastime found in the Bible             LAGOS,  Nigeria;  BANGALORE,  India––“Ram fighting during,  but not limited to,  the Eid period,  and involving not just Muslims,  seems to have become a gold mine in Nigeria,”  a Muslim reader informed ANIMALS 24-7 shortly after the Feast of Eid al Adha on July 9,  2022. A ram fight […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Laws & standards, Nigeria, North Africa, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Southeast Asia, Sports, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan, Welfare Tagged With: Book of Daniel, Eid al Adha, Jacopo Lentini, Merritt Clifton, Mohammed, Ramcharger

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Malcolm X on pit bulls, other dangerous dogs, & betrayal

May 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Malcolm X said little about dogs,  yet his whole message was directly relevant             NEW YORK,  N.Y.–– February 21,  2022 will mark the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Afro-American leader Malcolm X at the former Audubon Ballroom in New York City,  now preserved as the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Police & military, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Audubon, Betty Shabazz, Fred Shuttleworth, Malikah Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, U-Haul

Alisa Marie Mullins: longtime behind-the-scenes voice of PETA

March 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

PETA obituary understated Mullins’ role as author,  ghostwriter,  & spokesperson Alisa Marie Mullins,  59,  a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals researcher and writer for 30 years,  died on March 22, 2022 “after a 2-year battle with brain cancer,”  PETA announced. The PETA obituary announcement understated Mullins’ longtime role as author and/or ghost writer […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cats, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Barack Obama, KKK, McDonald's, Merritt Clifton, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Peter Wolf, Steve Hindi, Vox Felina

What does Islam teach about spay/neuter of dogs & cats?

December 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

All major schools and branches of Islam accept spay/neuter surgery––if it is done correctly              Few ANIMALS 24-7 articles have been more often read,  in more nations,  than What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?  This article,  updated most recently on August 22,  2021,  was among the first […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Libya, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Dar Al Ifta, Debbie Hirst, Merritt Clifton, Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, Myat Min, Prophet Mohammed, Rahul Sehgal, Rubaiya Ahmed, Sheikh M. S. Al-Munajjid, Sheikh Sayyed Mutawalli Ad-Darsh

What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs,  ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013,  during the U.S. occupation,  when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]

Filed Under: Africa, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Prophet Mohammed

What does the Taliban mean for animals in Afghanistan?

August 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Sharia law may be much better for animals than for western-funded animal advocacy organizations UPDATE:  The Economist of May 20, 2023 reported that both the Mayhew International street dog spay/neuter program in Kabul and Nowzad are back up and running,  and that the Taliban mayor of Kabul recently joined Mayhew International in celebrating 30,000 spay/neuter […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Central Asia, Cockfighting, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Other animal fighting, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdul Jalil Mohammadzai, Buzkashi, Mayhew International, Nowzad, Pamela Constable, Penny Farthing, Tahera Rezaei

Behind the veil: live animal shipping & the Islamic New Year

August 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Why what goes on quietly matters more than public slaughter after Ramadan JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia;  GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa––Tonight,  August 9,  2021,  nearly two billion Muslims worldwide will quietly celebrate Hijri 1443,  the Islamic New Year,  marking 1,443 years since Muhammed led his disciples from Mecca to Medina in 622 Anno Domini on the Christian calendar. […]

Filed Under: Africa, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Africa, Welfare Tagged With: Al Mawashi, Marcelle Meredith, National SPCA of South Africa, Zeinab Mohammed Salih

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

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