Animal Welfare Institute & Humane Society International make recommendations WASEKA, Minnesota––Twelve thousand pigs, including 9,000 piglets and 3,000 sows, died in a May 16, 2021 fire that razed two barns at the Woodville Pork Farm in Waseca, Minnesota. Nine different rural fire departments sent water tankers, but as the first barn was already fully […]
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason
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 […]
Australian sheep export to Bahrain meets “bloody & miserable end” in Pakistan
22,000 sheep culled in secret KARACHI, Pakistan––The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20, 2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4, 2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover, Malir district deputy commissioner Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam […]
Sheep & cattle stranded at sea by Suez Canal blockage are moving again
3,000-year-old livestock shipping route opened by Pharoahs is unblocked ISMAILIA, Egypt––Tens of thousands of sheep, cattle, and other live animals stranded for up to six days aboard more than 20 transport vessels are moving again through the Suez Canal, as of March 29, 2021. Egyptian Lieutenant General Osama Rabei, heading the Suez Canal Authority, […]
Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect
Forthcoming World Health Organization report is expected to confirm Chinese investigators’ suspicions BEIJING, BOSTON, WUHAN––Will a World Health Organization report expected to be released within days indict the Chinese mink industry for infecting the world with COVID-19? Beijing University researchers have already suspected for more than a year that mink farming was likely […]
Animal deaths at Primarily Primates were not “acts of God”
Why was Primarily Primates less ready for the Texas freeze than a pizza parlor? SAN ANTONIO, Texas––“After 4 days without power, we finally have electricity back at the sanctuary!” Primarily Primates posted on the morning of February 19, 2021. “Due to the tenuous situation here in Texas,” the posting added, “we will be using […]
The incredible, recent, global rise in the stranding of marine mammals
by Bill McGraw, Ph.D. Boquete, Panama During late September, 2020, Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later, during early October 2020, the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was […]
This is the house––a fortified compound––that the PetSmart founder built
Community fears a cult will follow GREENBANK, Washington––Residents of Greenbank, Washington, the Whidbey Island convenience-store-and-post-office hamlet where ANIMALS 24-7 gets mail, awakened on November 21, 2020 to a 36-year-old recurring nightmare. Again a fortified house owned by a survivalist of far-right beliefs from Phoenix, Arizona, with Idaho connections, had been found in the woods nearby. […]
Mob destroys the Nigeria SPCA amid national crisis
Similar attack trashed & looted renowned drill conservation project LAGOS, Nigeria––Amid the chaos and violence engulfing Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria, the October 14, 2020 mob destruction of the Nigeria SPCA has so far not even won local media coverage. But the attack crippled the oldest institution in Nigeria that offers humane education and […]
Expanded hunting access goes up in smoke, burning Trumpists
Trump administration opened 2.3 million acres of protected habitat to hunting, but wildfires have forced closure of more than 10 times as much WASHINGTON D.C.––Staunch support for U.S. President Donald Trump among gun-owning households might be said to have backfired on hunters in the wildfire-stricken West Coast and Rocky Mountain states. Courting hunter […]
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