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“Here they came to snuff the rooster” in Cantrell country, but SHARK saved him

June 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness stops yet another big cockfight STRINGTOWN, Oklahoma––”Here they came to snuff the rooster,”  to paraphrase the best known song by “Alice In Chains” guitarist Jerry Cantrell,  the most famous of the 410 residents of Stringtown,  Oklahoma. Yet more than 60 carloads of cockfighting enthusiasts barely saw any roosters snuffed on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Alice In Chains, Bonnie & Clyde, Jerry Cantrell, Mike Kobliska, Miranda Lambert, Reba McIntire, Rob Baughman, Steve Hindi, Stringtown

Floods: Yellowstone animals don’t need Noah, but animals might in Assam, India

June 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

High water raises hell in both the Rocky Mountains & below the Himalayas             YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,  U.S.A.;  GUWAHATI, Assam, India––While unprecedentedly catastrophic flooding closed Yellowstone National Park for a week in mid-June 2022,  also unprecedentedly severe monsoon flooding closed Manas National Park in Assam state,  India,  earlier and for longer. Both Yellowstone National Park,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Disasters, Elephants, Endangered species, Feature Home Middle Left, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Brahmaputra, Just Be Friendly, Manas National Park, Merritt Clifton, Smriti R. Dutta, Yellowstone National Park

Exotic animal sanctuarians race the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

June 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Animals in need,  unchecked breeding & abandonment,  limited resources,  & advancing age             TAMPA,  Florida––The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  according to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel,  are death by the sword,  famine,  wild beasts,  and plague.             But Ezekiel,  though generally believed to have been a vegetarian and perhaps a vegan,  was not […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Pigs, Reptiles, Sanctuaries, Turtles, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: American Tortoise Rescue, Carole Baskin, Kevin Antle, Lori Keene Rutledge, Martine Colette, Primarily Primates, Susan Tellem, Tiger King, Wally Swett, Wildlife Waystation

Will a Washington court make Costco treat chickens better in Nebraska & Iowa?

June 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Two Costco shareholders sue the board of directors for allegedly violating humane laws              SEATTLE, Washington––Costco Wholesale Corporation,  better known as just Costco,  in 2016 introduced a novel strategy to wring profits out of the necks of chickens. Now Legal Impact for Chickens,  a recently formed San Francisco-based nonprofit,  is pursuing a novel legal strategy to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Adam Karp, Krystil Smith, Leah Garcés, Leo E. Strine, Mercy for Animals, Merritt Clifton, National Chicken Council, Tyler Lobdell

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Horses die by the hundreds on pilgrimage to honor the Hindu “God of all animals”

June 12, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

What if 600 horses died climbing Pikes Peak? DEHRADUN,  Uttarakhand,  India––One might imagine that the annual pilgrimage to Kedarnath,  a temple in the Himalayas built in honor of Lord Pashupatinath,  the Hindu god of all animals,  might be undertaken with particular attention to animal welfare. But then,  one might also expect all four legs of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cruelty & neglect, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Religion & philosophy, Working animals, Working horses Tagged With: Char Dham Yatra, Gauri Maulekhi, Kedarnath, Pashupatinath, Pike's Peak, Uttarakhand

USDA-APHIS wants your 2¢ on animal-related federal law enforcement––NOW!!!

June 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Come on,  animal advocates,  let’s move fast!  Your big chance has come at last!  Want a chance to have your say?  Tell it to the USDA!”             WASHINGTON D.C.––The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS] is,  until the end of June 2022,  offering the public a unique chance to kibbitz on an “APHIS […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live transport, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Mice & rats, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Show, Slaughter, Spectacles, Urban wildlife, USA, Welfare, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Animal Welfare Act, Beth Clifton, BillyGoBoy, Clant Seay, Horse Protection Act, Merritt Clifton

Rooster’s Rescue: paint-ball profits (if any) did not sustain sanctuary

June 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Guns,  drugs,  & 71 neglected animals FLEMINGTON,  New Jersey––Among all the two-dozen odd busts of allegedly negligent animal rescues going down during the first six months of 2022,  the May 26,  2022 impoundment of 71 animals from Rooster’s Rescue Foundation Inc. in Flemington,  New Jersey,  might have stood out even if the property owner had […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Sanctuaries, Sheep & goats, USA Tagged With: Cherry Grove Farm, Frank Celi, Leonard Santos, Merritt Clifton, Michael Featherston, Richard Cottone, Rooster Featherston

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

Cockfighters cut deals & hack reporting doesn’t cut it in Kentucky

May 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald Leader is unapologetic about crediting wrong two groups with roles in busts;  does not name the right two             LEXINGTON, Kentucky––Cockfighting cases usually result in plea-bargained sentences. Few people,  if any,  might therefore have been surprised when alleged cockfighters Rickie D. Johnson,  55,  and Hiram B. Creech Jr.,  47,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Bald Rock, Bill Estep, Hiram B. Creech, Jacklyn R. Johnson, Lexington Herald Leader, Merritt Clifton, Monte Irby, Rickie D. Johnson, Wayne Pacelle

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