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Brother Wolf: “Warehousing is not working,” says director of no-kill experiment

December 11, 2019 by Merritt Clifton 6 Comments

“Keeping aggressive animals isn’t the solution for lifesaving” ASHEVILLE,  North Carolina––“We are warehousing aggressive animals at Brother Wolf when we know this isn’t the solution for lifesaving,”  executive director Leah Craig Fieser acknowledged in “Warehousing is not working,”  a December 5,  2019 social media statement inspiring heated debate nationwide. “We inherited this way of operating,”  Fieser said,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Population control, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Denise Bitz, Leah Craig Fieser, Merritt Clifton, Paul Berry

Livestock shipment to Middle East goes sideways; to Hawaii, goes backward

December 9, 2019 by Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Drowned sheep & asphixiated cattle result from opposite approaches to maximizing profit MILILANI, Hawaii––Compared to the drowning deaths of more than 14,350 sheep on November 24,  2019 aboard the capsized Queen Hind in the port of Midia,  Romania,  the deaths of 21 Angus heifers aboard a Young Brothers barge en route from Honolulu to Kauai,  […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Romania, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom Tagged With: Bobby Farias, Carroll Cox, Jason Moniz, Jill Phipps, John Palmer Parker, Linda J. Cox, Wyatt Bechtel

Vegan Man hopes Florida jury will have it his way in case against Burger King

November 20, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Can expect to be grilled in cross-examination MIAMI,  Florida––Vegan Man on November 18,  2019 served notice on the Miami-based Burger King fast food chain in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that he hopes to meet twelve Florida men––and Florida women––in a jury box soon,  with a judge presiding. Seeking class […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Abdi Latif Dahir, Chris Finazzo, Harish Bharti, Jack Norris, Joseph Connelly, Kim Bellware, Matt Ball, Merritt Clifton, Phillip Williams

Miyoko to dairy farmers:  “Don’t have a cow,   man!”

November 15, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

“Nuts to you each morning!”             DALLAS,  Texas;  SONOMA,  California––Almost simultaneously in mid-November 2019,  Dean Foods declared bankruptcy,  leaving 12,000 dairy farmers across the U.S. potentially up Manure Creek without a butter churn,  and Miyoko’s Creamery,  one of the fastest-growing makers of nut-based alternatives to cheese and butter,  announced that in early 2020 it will […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Allen Root, Dino Giacomazzi, Ellen DeGeneres, Jill Ettinger, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko Schinner

Will African swine fever make China vegan?

November 4, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Whatever happens, most of the world will eat less pork SYDNEY,  Australia;  HONG KONG––Will African swine fever,  a viral disease now projected to kill at least half the pigs in China and a quarter of all the pigs in the world,  accelerate the trend toward vegan eating? Or speed the transition toward factory farming? Or […]

Filed Under: Africa, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Eastern Europe, Eating dogs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Philippines, Pigs, South Korea, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Andriy Rozstalnyy, He Huifeng, Jason Gale, Mark Schipp, Merritt Clifton, Oma Seddiq, Orange Wong, Park Won-soon, Yu Kangzhen

USDA Slaughterhouse Deregulation:  Pigs in Peril

October 18, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Guest column by Gail A. Eisnitz In December 2019,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture will implement its “modernization” plan for the slaughter of pigs by turning over key inspection duties to the very industry it regulates. While current regulations allow slaughterhouses to kill a staggering 1,106 pigs per hour – or one pig every three […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Gail A. Eisnitz

Cruelty charges filed against Aussie live sheep shippers––a first!

August 1, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Shipping company already lost live export license             PERTH,  Australia––Cruelty charges were on July 31,  2019 filed against two former directors of the live animal shipping company Emanuel Exports over the August 2017 deaths of more than 2,400 sheep from heat stress aboard the Awassi Express.             The sheep were in transit to slaughter in […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Calla Wahlquist, Graham Daws, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stanton, Nicholas Daws

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

E. coli kills yet another child who visited a petting zoo

July 2, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Third known petting zoo fatality since 2011 SAN DIEGO, California––Jedidiah King Cabezuela,  age 2,  on June 24,  2019 died from hemolytic uremic syndrome,  an apparent complication of exposure to shiga toxin-producing e. coli bacteria two weeks earlier at the San Diego County Fair. “The County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency said the […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horse & livestock shows, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Sheep & goats, Zoos Tagged With: Aedin Grey, Colton Guay, Gage Lefevers, Jedidiah King Cabezuela, Merritt Clifton, Myles Herschaft, Scott Weese, Tim Fennell

Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd

June 9, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence,  as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy,  meat,  and poultry consumption among younger […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Becky sandstedt, Gail Eisnitz, H. Glenn Esbenshade, Lynn Becker, Merritt Clifton, Nick Weaver, Stan Curtis, Temple Grandin, Trent Loos

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