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Walls, boar purges, & no-man’s-land fail to stop African swine fever

January 18, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Wild boar to blame for only 1% of outbreaks, Chinese learn             PARIS,  France––Donald Trump is not the only world leader who has yet to learn that walls don’t work––not if the goal is really to keep a foreign threat out,  as opposed to presenting the appearance to a political base of doing something drastic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, China, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Disease, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lithuania, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Ukraine Tagged With: Donald Trump, Frank Fang, Merritt Clifton

Four lionesses: women who made a difference for animals

February 17, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Remembering Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth,  widely separated in geography,  ages,  life experience,  and focus in activism,  likely never met,  nor even heard of each other,  yet––like tens of thousands of other relatively anonymous women––lent strength to the ever-growing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Coby Siegenthaler, Hans Siegenthaler, Lorraine Blake Roth, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick

Stink over conditions at skunk & ferret “fur farm”

October 23, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

SAEN seeks Animal Welfare Act charges against “fur farm” that appears to breed animals mostly for laboratories & the pet trade             NEW SHARON,  Iowa––If the 85-year-old Ruby Fur Farm was just a fur farm,  producing mink or fox pelts for the garment industry,  it would not be subject to unannounced visits from the USDA […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Austria, China, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Germany, Lab animals, Netherlands, Other species, Regulation, Scandinavia, Science, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Ruby Fur Farm, SAEN

Rottweilers, Dobermans, Presa Canarios, Boerboels

June 23, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

Rottweilers, Dobermans, Presa Canarios, Boerboels • Houston dog fancier killed: “Before pit bulls, it was Dobermans”? • Deadliest dogs in South Africa? Boerboels challenge pit bulls • Boerboel dogs: “bull-biters” became symbols of apartheid • Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy • Why Rottweilers are as deadly as pit bulls • […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cart dogs, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Germany, Hunting, Netherlands, Police & military, Population control, Service dogs, Shelters, Training, USA, Uses of dogs

Oregon cities move to bar dogs from public areas

March 11, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

Non-BSL response to attacks          EUGENE,  SALEM,  Oregon––Dogs,  as of March 8,  2017,  are officially no longer welcome in downtown Eugene,  home of the University of Oregon Ducks,  and no longer welcome to run off leash to terrorize ducks and others in parks in Salem,  the state capital. Eugene is considered to be among the […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Laws & politics, Netherlands, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Candace Louise Barrett, Christian Hill, Merritt Clifton, Mike Zieker, Rich Landers

NFL warns players–22 years after Humane Farming Association

May 5, 2016 by Merritt Clifton

Eating Mexican or Chinese meat said to bring risk of ingesting banned drug          NEW YORK CITY––A National Football League warning to players against eating meat from Mexico and China that may contain the synthetic steroid clenbuterol in early May 2016 at last caught up to Humane Farming Association warnings to the American public––22 years […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cattle & dairy, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mexico, Netherlands, Pigs, Racing, Show, Slaughter, Slaughter, Slaughter, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Working horses Tagged With: Duane Brown, Gail Eisnitz, Karel van Knoppen, Merritt Clifton

Smart money bets on bio-cultured meat

July 13, 2015 by Merritt Clifton

Facebook & Google financiers say animals are not the future of agribusiness          BROOKLYN, SAN FRANCISCO, HONG KONG––Some leading edge investors in agribusiness with long successful histories are betting big-time that the future of animal agriculture will no longer involve raising animals. Li Ka-Shing, for example, the richest man in Asia, with net worth of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Alternatives, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Central Europe, Chickens, China, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Fur & leather, Global, Hooved stock, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Science, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Arturo Elizondo, David Anchel, Isha Datar, Koby Barak, Maneka Gandhi, Mark Post, Merritt Clifton, Modern Agriculture Foundation, Modern Meadow, Muufri, New Harvest, Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya

Foot-and-mouth disease spreads; Indian outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease may inhibit global vaccination effort

June 9, 2015 by Merritt Clifton

NEW DELHI––Erratic performance from some Indian-made vaccines may be undercutting foot-and-mouth disease eradication efforts throughout the developing world,  potentially threatening the lives of millions of cattle,  sheep,  pigs,  and other hooved animals. The alleged vaccine failures might also pose a significant threat to animals in Europe and North America. Foot-and-mouth disease can travel with infected […]

Filed Under: Africa, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Meat issues, Netherlands, North Africa, Pacific rim, Pigs, Sheep & goats, South Korea, United Kingdom Tagged With: Bhoj Raj Singh, Foot-and-mouth disease, Hoof-and-mouth disease, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Norway proposes to pelt the fur trade

May 14, 2015 by Merritt Clifton

         OSLO, Norway––Norwegian finance minister Siv Jensen on May 12, 2015 presented a Revised National Budget to Parliament that includes a proposed 17.8 million kroner cut in agricultural subsidies to fur farmers. The proposed cut, amounting to $2.35 million in U.S. funds, or 2.1 million euros, would halve the total amount of aid to fur […]

Filed Under: China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Norway, Scandinavia Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Pål Vasbotten, Victor Watkins

More raids in horse-meat-sold-as-beef scandal

April 29, 2015 by Merritt Clifton

DEN HAAG, The Netherlands––The April 24, 2015 coordinated arrests of 26 traffickers in seven European nations who allegedly sold horse meat as beef underscored the reality that horse meat as such is no longer a high-end commodity. Eight years after the USDA by Congressional directive quit inspecting the last three U.S. horse slaughterhouses, obliging them […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Middle Right, Food, France, Germany, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Live transport, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Racing, Slaughter, Slaughter, United Kingdom Tagged With: Burger King, Eurojust, Silvercrest

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