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Has the world-wide vegan revolution started — in Israel?

January 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

The Vegan Revolution. Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism by Richard Schwartz Lantern Publishing & Media, 2020. Reviewed by Keith Akers Any other book titled The Vegan Revolution,  if one didn’t look at the subtitle,  would not necessarily seem to have anything to do especially with Judaism or Israel.  But from page 1 forward,  Richard Schwartz […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Keith Akers, Richard H. Schwartz

Animal Agriculture is Immoral: vegan activists respond to COVID-19

January 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 4 Comments

Anthology edited by Sailesh Rao, Ph.D. 156 pages,  paperback.  $9.99 from Amazon.com. Reviewed by Richard Schwartz             Animal Agriculture Is Immoral is an anthology of scholarly,  insightful, thought-provoking essays from environmental, social, religious, and spiritual perspectives by leading vegan activists,  assembled in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  about the very negative effects of animal-based […]

Filed Under: Activism, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brandon Burr, Dan Book, David Rosen, Duke McLeod, Hope Bohanec, Jason Glasson, Jeffrey Spitz Cohen, Judy Carman, Karen Davis, Lewis Regenstein, Richard H. Schwartz, Sailesh Rao, Shmuly Yanklowitz, Stephen Kaufman, Susan Hargreave, Victoria Moran, Will Tuttle, Yonatan Neril

Trump appointee cut deal with NRA to boost hunting on the way out the door

January 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

But National Rifle Association declared bankruptcy two days later             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service director Aurelia Skipwith on January 13,  2021,  a week from the end of the Donald Trump presidential administration and probably not much longer from her own replacement,  signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Rifle Association “to assist […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Clare Duffy, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, John Frazer, Josh Powell, Karl Racine, Leo Giacometto, Letitia James, Merritt Clifton, Wayne LaPierre, Wilson Phillips

A black-and-white issue that the humane community has yet to face

January 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 16 Comments

Editorial by Merritt & Beth Clifton Two nights ago,  in advance of Martin Luther King Day, ANIMALS 24-7 posted as our lead feature Black humane history found in great-grandpa’s attic near a town called Ark, profiling the lives and work of John W. Lemon and Seymour Carroll. This article followed up on,  and expanded,  Four black […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: AR 2014, AR 2015, Bill Moyer, HSUS Expo, Ku Klux Klan, Lila Miller, Lloyd Tait, Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, Nelson Mandela, Social Movement Empowerment Project

What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 18 Comments

Leading influence on rise of animal rights movement Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, in whose honor we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, never had any visible direct involvement with animals or animal issues––but he is justly remembered among the greatest influences on the animal rights movement of our time, and the many […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Coretta Scott King, Henry Spira, Martin Luther King Jr.

Black humane history found in great-grandpa’s attic near a town called Ark

January 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

Letters and a map document the humane & racial justice movements when they were one and the same ARK, Virginia––Bus driver Alan Lemon,  59,  hoped to find antiques that might be sold online in 2018 when he and a friend decided to explore the attic of his great grandfather John W. Lemon’s long abandoned and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animism & Santeria, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Iceland, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alan Lemon, Eric H. Hansen, Francis Rowley, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, George Thorndike Angell, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, Seymour Carroll, William Alan Swallow

Four black leaders who built the humane movement

January 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 7 Comments

More people recognized William Key,  John W. Lemon,  Richard Carroll,  & F. Rivers Barnwell in their own time than would have recognized ASPCA founder Henry Bergh              INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––“I am the only colored speaker on the program,  and in fact I have not seen a single colored visitor to it,”  wrote the Reverend Richard Carroll […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Beautiful Jim, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, Janet M. Davis, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, William Key

Aurora repeals pit bull ban; pit bull advocates in trouble in three states

January 15, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

$2 million payout to family of Janet D’Aleo,  95,  killed on November 6,  2019 by “rescue” pit bull belonging to Humane Society of the U.S. state representative Annie Hornish AURORA, Colorado––Overturning an ordinance banning pit bulls that was endorsed by 64% of the electorate as recently as 2014,  four of the seven members of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Amber Rickles, Anne Hornish, Apryl Steele, Cesar Millan, Cleveratta Gordon-Waldroup, Janet D'Aleo, Jennifer Romano, Marsha Berzins, Ronin Waldroup

Siegfried Fischbacher, 81, follows tiger act partner Roy Horn, 75, in death

January 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Illusionist Fischbacher, of Siegfried & Roy, created image of partner Horn as “positive reinforcement” trainer & conservationist Both were role models for “Joe Exotic” et al             LAS VEGAS––Entertainer Siegfried Fischbacher,  81,  died of pancreatic cancer on January 14,  2021,  at the Las Vegas home he had shared with Roy Horn,  his partner in life […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, Spectacles, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Carole Baskin, Chris Lawrence, Doc Antle, Joe Exotic, Merritt Clifton, Robert McFadden, Roy Horn, Siegfried Fischbacher

Trump allies in the animal world squirm after U.S. Capitol storming

January 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 13 Comments

From “Joe Exotic” to Wayne Pacelle             WASHINGTON D.C.––Soon-to-be-former U.S. President Donald Trump and his die-hard defenders who are now facing criminal charges for storming the U.S. National Capitol building on January 6,  2021 were scarcely the only big losers from the events of the day. Former U.S. Air Force security dog handler Ashli Babbitt,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cats, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Ashli Babbitt, Blair Brandt, Bradley Lane Croft, Brian Sweeney, Donald Trump, Jake Angeli Chansley, Joe Arpaio, Joe Exotic, Lara Trump, Pinky Cole, Raphael Warnock, Slutty Vegan, Stacy Abrams, Wayne Pacelle

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