Proposed law may be more about Catholic nationalist politics, anti-Semitism, and COVID-19 than about concern for animals WARSAW, Poland––Is a new omnibus animal protection law recently proposed in Poland really all about animals, driven in part by concern that mink farming may be a reservoir for the pandemic COVID-19 coronavirus? Or is the proposed […]
Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”
BL Cozad garbled Bible & U.S. Constitution MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––If cockfighting advocate BL “Billy” Cozad had ever actually read the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21, instead of blindly denouncing it, he might have found that certain passages in it better support his arguments than anything he misquoted and misrepresented from the Bible and […]
A challenge to Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, & “A chicken in every pot”
70 Members of Congress & United Poultry Concerns ask VP candidates to address global warming & meat SALT LAKE CITY, Utah––Will the October 7, 2020 debate between Republican vice president Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential challenger Kamala Harris bring the first direct challenge in 92 years to the political promise of putting a […]
Ship down with 5,867 cows & 42 crew renews protest against live export
Had history of engine failure AMAMI OSHIMA ISLAND, Japan––The Gulf Livestock 1, a Panamanian-flagged converted container ship carrying 5,867 two-year-old heifers and 43 human crew, capsized and sank on September 2, 2020 in the East China Sea, about 100 nautical miles west of Amami Oshima Island, Japan, the first survivor to be rescued told the Japanese […]
Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse
Accident reprises 1995 death of British protester Jill Phipps BURLINGTON, Ontario––Regan Russell, 65, of Hamilton, Ontario, was on June 19, 2020 crushed to death by an 18-wheel livestock transport truck delivering pigs to slaughter at Fearman’s Pork Inc., the largest and oldest slaughterhouse in Ontario. A local landmark since 1852, and the scene of […]
Hurricane Laura: mouse takes the spotlight while 10 dogs die on truck
Marine life are major wildlife casualties COOKEVILLE, Tennessee––Pipsqueak the three-legged mouse, a cow dead for perhaps 160 years, ten dogs succumbing to heat exhaustion aboard a rescue transport, and acres of decomposing marine life scattered across beaches more than 300 miles from where Hurricane Laura made landfall at Cameron Parish, Louisiana, appear to be […]
Wildfires, COVID-19, & cockfighting besiege Monterey County
Cockfighting may be accelerant behind COVID-19 explosion MONTEREY, California––The 50,000-acre River wildfire, destroying at least 13 homes, and the 7,000-acre Carmel wildfire, razing 50 homes, reportedly forced the evacuation of more than 500 animals to the SPCA for Monterey County shelter during the fourth week of August 2020––and then forced the animals’ re-evacuation to the […]
Animal losses low after Hurricane Laura––but worst may be ahead
Little animal agriculture where storm made landfall CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana––From the animal safety perspective, Hurricane Laura could scarcely have hit in a less vulnerable location. Reportedly the most powerful hurricane to hit coastal Louisiana since the Last Island hurricane of 1856, Hurricane Laura whirled into the coastal bayous of sparsely populated Cameron Parish in […]
Pro-cockfighting rally draws fewer participants than local cockfights
Apathy thwarts “Call To Action BBQ” VERBENA, Alabama––One inept attempt to rally nationwide support for cockfighting, convened on short notice amid a global pandemic, scarcely means the multi-million-dollar cockfighting industry is unraveling, protected as it is by “good old boys” in legislatures and law enforcement. But that fewer people rallied in defense of cockfighting on […]
Birds in the mail: U.S. Postal Service changes kill thousands
Trump appointee DeJoy puts animal advocates, factory farmers, cockfighters, & captive bird-shooters all on the same side of the fence WASHINGTON D.C.––Changes to U.S. Postal Service policy and practice implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, appointed in May 2020 by U.S. President Donald Trump, on August 21, 2020 improbably aligned animal advocates, factory-style poultry farmers, […]
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