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Complaining that seals cause “stress,” farm cuts gills from salmon alive

February 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

John Robins:  “Salmon farming is cruel,  plain and simple.”              STORNOWAY,  Scotland––The Danish-owned Scottish Salmon Company,  just three weeks after complaining to media about seal attacks “stressing” farmed Atlantic salmon near Portree on Skye,  has been exposed in undercover video obtained by Animal Equality U.K. for allegedly allowing routine cruelty in processing on a scale […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Abigail Penny, John A. MacInnes, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton

Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads

February 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act brought law to save seals in Scottish waters             EDINBURGH,  Scotland––Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads,  posted by Animal Concern Scotland on February 1,  2021. The reward is specifically for information leading to the first successful prosecution under a new Scottish seal protection law,  adopted on […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bakkafrost, Bernadette Jordan, Edward Kolodziej, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Tavish Scott, Zhenyu Tian

Fish farming foe Kurt Oddekalv, no bunny-hugger, dies trying to save dog

February 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The dog died too Fish farming foe Kurt Willy Oddekalv,  63,  on January 11,  2020 died from drowning and hypothermia suffered in attempting to rescue his daughter’s dog Kompis,  who had fallen through ice on a lake near their home in Kalandseidet, Bergen, Norway. The dog Kompis was found dead nearby. As a sergeant in the […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Wildlife Tagged With: anti-vaxxer, Jens Stoltenberg, Joseph Mercola, Merritt Clifton, Vince McDonagh

Florida fishers break ranks to denounce cruelty to fish

October 27, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Nothing suggests fishers are becoming as sensitive as fish themselves, but even discussing fish sentience & suffering marks a sea change             SARASOTA, Florida––Cruelty to fish,  just a few years ago,  was a topic attracting little attention,  and only derision from media serving recreational fishers,  but three topics hotly discussed in Florida during October 2020 […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Horses & Farmed Animals, Malta, Marine life, Mediterranean, Wildlife Tagged With: Aisha Zahid, David Dipre, David McGrath, Gwen Filosa, Merritt Clifton, Mitchell Willetts, Tim Trone, Victor Paul Borg, Yansel Garrido

Prince Charles, sea lice, & why salmon farming stinks

July 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Norwegian investors hope to delouse the salmon industry with new facility in Maryland BALTIMORE, Maryland––Salmon farming stinks. Business media worldwide have for weeks failed to mention that fact in amplifying a July 7,  2020 announcement that the Norwegian firm AquaCon plans to build a $300 million land-based salmon farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Paal Haldorsen, Prince Charles, Rob Edwards, Yonathan Zohar

Scotland to stop shooting seals to save salmon farm profits––but not until 2021

June 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

50-year effort by Scottish seal defenders––but Humane Society of the U.S. blasts out media releases claiming credit DUMBARTON,  Scotland––Culminating a half century of effort by the Save Our Seals Fund,  and Animal Concern Scotland,  led for decades by John Robins of both organizations,  the Scottish Parliament on June 17,  2020 ratified a new Animals & Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Staniford, John Robins, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Severin Carrell

Do fish feel pain? Victoria Braithwaite proved it to science

October 10, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Led recognition of “metric tons” of fish as millions of sentient lives             UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania––The biggest news in the watery world of fisheries in early October 2019 was the appearance of the 447-foot Margiris,  reputedly the world’s second-largest trawler,  through the mists of the English Channel just 14 miles off Brighton,  East Sussex. “For […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Science, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Glenn Cooke, John Hourston, Lynne Sneddon, Merritt Clifton, Rupert Evelyn, Russell Deeks, Sebastian Belle, Victoria Braithwaite

Three veg fun foods that terrify the animal-based food industry

July 14, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Impossible Burgers, cell-cultured ice cream, & goldfish crackers––& goldfish crackers may scare the animal-based food industry most of all             EMERYVILLE, California––Now you can order vegan Impossible Burgers to be delivered for a midnight meal,  as thousands of people have already done. As of July 11,  2019,  you could have real vegan ice cream for […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Elaine Watson, Jessica Almy, Kat Smith, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Lima, Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya

What “sportsmen” say about stomping fish dumped out of a barrel

June 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Fishers fight over sadistic display              KALISPELL,  Montana––Shooting fish in a barrel,  long a metaphor for the most unsporting forms of hunting,  has a correlative at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s,  a Bass subsidiary since 2017. To hook children on recreational killing,  Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s stores from time to time offer free access […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Hughes, Mary Finelli, Merritt Clifton, Michael Johnson, Whitney Trainer

Trial of David Wills on child sex abuse charges again delayed

March 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Case may hang on pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling             CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas––The multi-time postponed trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes has yet again been rescheduled. Wills is now set for trial in September 2019,  ANIMALS 24-7 has been informed. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Horses & Farmed Animals, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Maria Losoya Candelaria, Noel J. Francisco, Terance Gamble, Yolandi Groenewald

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