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A Traitor To His Species:  Henry Bergh & The Birth Of The Animal Rights Movement

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by Ernest Freeberg 322 pages,  hardcover.  $30.00. Basic Books Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 www.basicbooks.com Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Perhaps the first question to ask about a new biography of Henry Bergh,  of whom more than 50 have reputedly been written already,  with at least four close to […]

Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too

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Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban,  & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor             BERKELEY,  DENVER,  NEW YORK CITY––While the races for the U.S. Presidency,  control of the Senate and House of Representatives grip the nation on Election Day 2020,  animal […]

Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.

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Dutch findings come as COVID-19 hits mink farms & humans in Wisconsin & Utah             GREEN BAY, Wisconsin;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah––Which came first,  the COVID-19 coronavirus infecting humans,  or infecting mink? No one right now knows for sure whether mink might have been the incubator species through which COVID-19 passed from horseshoe bats in […]

Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”

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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”

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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

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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

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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 […]

Slaughter workers, animals, & advocates: can there be justice for all?

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Not all social justice interests are compatible by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “It really does something to your mind when you stand there in all that blood, killing so many times, over and over again.” – Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse employee  If I see or hear the word “meatpacking” one […]

Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

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Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As well as leading Een Dier Een Vriend […]

Vigil for vegetarian Elijah McClain, allegedly killed by police in Aurora, Colorado

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Forced injection of ketamine may have stopped heart AURORA, Colorado––Mourners and protesters,  including world-class violinists Ashanti Floyd and Lee England Jr.,  who flew in from New York City and Atlanta for the occasion,  on June 27,  2020 played a variety of bowed instruments at City Center Park in Aurora,  Colorado,  in memory of Elijah McClain,  […]