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Indianapolis 500: no longer a balloon chase & Nebraska Cornhuskers ditto!

May 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Balloons Blow takes the checkered flag after a five-year campaign––and wins again in Nebraska!             INDIANAPOLIS,  Indiana––The Florida-based all-volunteer grassroots activist group Balloons Blow on April 21,  2022 earned a victory lap,  taking the checkered flag in a ten-year campaign against the ceremonial release of as many as 40,000 balloons just before the start of […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Sports, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Balloons Blow, Danielle Vosburgh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Louis Meyer, Merritt Clifton, Roger Penske, Tony Hulman

Why was there “a long lull in KY law enforcement against cockfighting?”

January 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Steve Hindi,  founder,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness “Another long lull in Kentucky law enforcement against cockfighting followed,  until the SHARK campaign debuted in 2020,”  ended the January 26,  2022 ANIMALS 24-7 article entitled Two cockfights stopped; Steve Hindi credits local opposition.             That sentence referenced the scarcity of cockfighting busts in Kentucky between a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, USA Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Beth Clifton, Charlie's Pit, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle, Will Potter

Fauci vs. the White Coat Waste Project: did Hans Ruesch sire the conflict?

December 2, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

And who was auto racer, author, & anti-vivisectionist Hans Ruesch,  anyhow? The conservative-leaning anti-vivisection organization White Coat Waste Project has since August 11,  2021 issued frequent flamboyant appeals and media releases associating 37-year National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci,  80,  with a variety of cruel and gruesome experiments on beagles and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Isles, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Sports, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Anthony Bellotti, Anthony Fauci, Dick Seaman, Hans Ruesch, Merritt Clifton

Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos

October 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Decisions may mean better days for animals,  but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.;  WASHINGTON D.C.;  MADISON, Wisconsin;  CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry,  cockfighting in Puerto Rico,  wolf hunting in Wisconsin,  and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Poultry, Predators, Religion & philosophy, South America, Sports, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Charles J. Siragusa, Farm Sanctuary, Gonacon, Jacob Frost, Luis Domingo Gómez Maldonado, Meredith Turner-Smith, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar, PZP

Baylor University mascot bears benefit from SHARK campaign 18 years later

October 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Longterm payoff bears recognition             WACO, Texas––A Showing Animals Respect & Kindness campaign targeting Baylor University back in 2002-2003 continued to pay off eighteen years later when the Baylor mascot bear enclosure,  built in 2005 in response to the SHARK campaign,  in May 2021 won Association of Zoos & Aquariums accreditation,  “a first for a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Bears, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Sports, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Baylor University, Colleen Gardner, Dr Pepper, Jeremy Beckham, Merritt Clifton, Rob Laidlaw, Steve Hindi

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             KABUL,  Afghanistan––Six days after the Taliban retook Kabul,  the national capital of Afghanistan,  the one certainty for the status of animals may be that dogfighting will be prohibited and firmly suppressed,  along with a violent regional sport called buzkashi in […]

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

Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

August 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 87th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to be held nightly,  August 12-15,  2021,  after a year’s hiatus due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Bizarre as the race itself is,  even more bizarre––and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Native American beliefs, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Wild horses Tagged With: Alex Dick, Allison Williams, Claire Pentz, Karen West, Larry Lansburgh, Lillian A. Ackerman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Timiraos, Roger Harnack, Warren Cox, Will Anderson

Investigators survive ambush attack at alleged cockfight in Ohio

January 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi is bloodied & drone lost in Wayne National Forest––a federal jurisdiction             WATERLOO, Ohio––Ambushed by at least four alleged assailants while sending a Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) drone aloft to videotape the crowd at what he told ANIMALS 24-7 was by far the biggest cockfight […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Sports, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Pinemountain Game Club, Steve Hindi, Waterloo Wonders, Wayne National Forest

Race track deaths upstage notice of horses “retired” due to injury

December 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

45 horses dead on three Southern California tracks during 2019 seasons––and 39 at Belmont alone LOS ALAMITOS,  California––Two horse deaths in the first race of the next-to-last-day of the Los Alamitos Race Course on December 14,  2019 renewed attention to high injury toll in horse racing,  but upstaged the disintegration of the California Equine Retirement […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Slaughter, Sports, USA

California Equine Retirement Foundation runs into deep muck

December 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Current leadership allegedly squandered assets & 27-year positive track record under ousted founder SAN JACINTO,  California––Among the 80-odd animal shelters,  sanctuaries,  and nonprofit rescue organizations foundering in 2019,  the California Equine Retirement Foundation (CERF) has probably run through the most money over the past five years. Along the way,  CERF blew the the best reputation […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Donkeys, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Sports, USA Tagged With: Carrie L. Ard, Grace Belcoure, Helen Meredith, Josephine Italiano, Margaret Ransom, Merritt Clifton, Paul Young

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