Horse farm fire is horrific; fire toll on poultry & pigs is thousands of times worse MARTINSVILLE, Indiana––A pre-dawn fire ripped through the Springcliff Farm foaling operation in Martinsville, Indiana on January 6, 2022, killing an as yet unknown number of horses. “The call came in around 4:50 a.m. from a neighbor,” White River Township […]
The Quad State Tornado: 80,000 chickens took the biggest hit
Help was mostly just a few miles––or blocks––from the tornado path LITTLE ROCK, LOUISVILLE, MEMPHIS, NASHVILLE, ST. LOUIS––Major national charities are putting in their inevitable fundraising photo-ops, but major animal rescue deployments are not expected––or wanted by most local humane societies and animal control agencies––in response to tornadoes that ripped through parts of Mississippi, […]
The Beirut explosion one year later, by Jason Mier, Animals Lebanon
[Contact Jason Mier & Animals Lebanon c/o [email protected]] On the afternoon of 4 August 2020, our lives exploded. 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate [a byproduct of manure from factory-farmed chickens], had been stored at the Beirut port, in the heart of the city, for six years. At 6:08 p.m. on August 4, 2020 this caught […]
Barn fires begin to be noticed by animal advocates but not yet agribiz
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 […]
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