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Bird flu means “cage free” & “free range” hens can run around indoors in the dark

May 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Cage free” & “free range” producers protect their “girls” by keeping them in jail Think that “cage-free” or “free-range” label on a box of eggs or meat package amounts to more than bull-feathers? Even if it is certified by any of the major farmed product certification organizations? Amid the current global H5N1 high pathogenic avian […]

Filed Under: Birds, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, France, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Poultry, Turkeys, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Certified Humane, H5N1, Merritt Clifton, Pete & Gerry's, Sybille De La Hamaide, Tom Polansek, Vital Farms

H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge

March 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide             AMES,  Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds,  wild or domestic,  to beware of the first outbreak of High […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, Chickens, China, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: cockfighters, foie gras, Ian Brown, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, United Poultry Concerns

Drug money crushes Swiss proposed ban on animal use in laboratories

February 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Pharmaceutical industry tries to drive stake through the heart of the ghost of Hans Ruesch             ZURICH,  Switzerland––Voters in Switzerland on February 13,  2022 crushed a proposed national ban on biomedical research using either animal or human subjects by a margin of 21% for,  79% against. Switzerland has some of the strongest animal protection laws […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Humane history, Lab animals, Mediterranean, Mice & rats, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Switzerland Tagged With: Abbott, Bayer, Hans Ruesch, Hoffmann-La Roche, Lonza Group, Merritt Clifton, Novartis, Renato Werndli

Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?

August 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Some in the U.S. mink industry see COVID-19 as a growth opportunity  WASHINGTON D.C.––Will the COVID-19 delta variant finally kill mink farming in the U.S.,  after COVID-19 in all forms has killed more than 633,000 Americans? Or will HR 4310,  dubbed the MINKS Act as acronym for “Minks in Narrowly Kept Spaces Are Superspreaders Act,”  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Spain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Joan Schaffner, Karen Manci, Kate Golden, Kitty Block, Meg Kinnard, Merritt Clifton, Nancy Mace, Rosa DeLauro, Sara Amundson

Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s mother & a Dutch witness speak

July 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull owner Christophe Ellul “has to recognize that it was his dog,”  says Nathalie Pilarski.             PARIS, France––The Amiens Court of Appeal is to rule on July 23,  2021 on a petition from attorney Alexandre Novion,  representing pit bull owner Christophe Ellul,  seeking to suppress DNA evidence that Ellul’s pit bull Curtis,  and Curtis […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benoit Blanc, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Merritt Clifton, Nathalie Pilarski, Sharon de Wit

Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s boyfriend Christophe Ellul indicted for manslaughter

March 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Indictment follows 16-month investigation of attack that has been the talk of France             SOISSONS,  France––Christophe Ellul, 46,  boyfriend of November 16,  2019 pit bull attack fatality Elisa Pilarski,  29,  was on March 4,  2021 indicted for manslaughter by Soissons prosecutor Julien Morino-Ros. Pilarski was six months pregnant.  Ellul,  the father of their unborn son […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Training Tagged With: Benoit Blanc, Beth Clifton, Eric Boussuge, Julien Morino-Ros, Le Rallye de la Passion, Merritt Clifton, Nathalie Pilarski, Poitevin hound, Sharon DeWit, Xavier Terquem Adoue

Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft”          WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao,  U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump presidential administration and almost certain to soon leave office,  on November 30,  2020 introduced a revised Air Carrier Access Act regulation on the transportation of service animals by air […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Germany, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Airlines for America, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Lara Trump, Lufthansa, Marlin Tremaine Jackson, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Knight

DNA & vets agree: pit bull Curtis, not hunting hounds, killed Elisa Pilarski

November 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Findings could lead to prosecution of fiancé of pregnant victim, who found her body, has denied both that Curtis did it and that he is a pit bull             PARIS, France––DNA test results released on November 3,  2020 by Eric Boussuge,  prosecutor for the district of Amiens,  support the finding of two court-appointed veterinarians that […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Deer & other horned species, Dog attacks, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Mediterranean, Wildlife Tagged With: Alexandre Novion, Caty Richard, Christian Diaz, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Guillaume Demarcq, Merritt Clifton, Soumya Berkane

Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.

October 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch findings come as COVID-19 hits mink farms & humans in Wisconsin & Utah             GREEN BAY, Wisconsin;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah––Which came first,  the COVID-19 coronavirus infecting humans,  or infecting mink? No one right now knows for sure whether mink might have been the incubator species through which COVID-19 passed from horseshoe bats in […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Disease, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tagged With: Darlene Konkle, Dean Taylor, Hope Kirwan, Jacob Klopfenstein, JoNel Aleccia, Merritt Clifton, Tyler Clifford

COVID-19 boosts Labs, goldens, & small dogs; pit bull breeders crash

July 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Stay home” orders bring sharp turn toward safe dogs Eighteen of the 28 Americans killed by dogs by the Fourth of July,  2020,  including 15 pit bull victims,  two killed by mastiffs,  and one killed by a Malinois,  were killed by their own family dogs in their own homes––a record pace of mayhem in every […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Greyhounds, Lab animals, Mediterranean, Science, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Chihuahua, Lowchen, Malinois, Staffordshire

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