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

November 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Population control, Religion & philosophy, USA, Working horses, Zoos Tagged With: Carolyn Earle White, Diana Belais, Ernest Freeberg, George Angell, Henry Spira, Kit Burns, Merritt Clifton, P.T. Barnum, Thomas Edison

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

October 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Disease, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tagged With: Darlene Konkle, Dean Taylor, Hope Kirwan, Jacob Klopfenstein, JoNel Aleccia, Merritt Clifton, Tyler Clifford

A challenge to Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, & “A chicken in every pot”

September 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disease, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Aiden Cook, Al Gore, Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover, Kamala Harris, Karen Davis, Mike Pence

The minks’ jinx: is COVID-19 an exploited species’ revenge?

May 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch disclose second case of mink-to-human COVID-19 transmission             WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands;  WUHAN, China––“A second case has become known on one of the infected mink farms where,  most likely,  SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19]passed from mink to human,”  Dutch minister of health Hugo DeYoung and minister of agriculture Carola Schouten jointly advised the Dutch parliament on May 25, 2020. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Carola Schouten, Donald Trump, Hugo DeYoung, Merritt Clifton, Peter Li, Wang Yanyi

“That touch of mink” & COVID-19: Dutch outbreak hints mink may be host

May 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Fur farming to end in The Netherlands by 2024 WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands––The discovery that ranched mink can become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus may lend momentum to the Dutch national plan to phase out mink farming entirely by 2024. Concern that mink themselves might become a COVID-19 reservoir may also dampen Chinese enthusiasm for rebuilding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, China, Denmark, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Carola Schouten, Doris Day, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Soren Alexandersen, Teresa Telecky

COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food

April 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But preserving profits, “red state” votes,  and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern             SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28,  2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Dave Dreeszen, Donald Trump, Esther Mechler, John Tyson, Merritt Clifton, Roger Witherspoon

COVID-19: far more U.S. meat workers hit than Wuhan “wet market” staff

April 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Infectious as “wet markets” are,  U.S. slaughterhouse conditions appear to be much worse             WATERLOO & SIOUX CITY, Iowa;  SIOUX FALLS,  South Dakota––COVID-19 has infected hundreds of U.S. slaughterhouse workers,  who may have spread the pandemic disease to whole cities,  USA Today reported late on April 22,  2020. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Andrew Wasley, Bibi van der Zee, David Pitt, Isabel Vincent, Joesley Batista, Kyle Bagenstose, Matt Wynn, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Senzarino, Raymundo Corral, Sky Chadde, Tom Levitt, Wesley Batista

People who buy meat from glass cases have little room to throw stones

April 13, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

(Beth Clifton collage) “Wet markets” in China & U.S. slaughterhouses both kill people as well as animals SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota––Underscoring that people who buy meat from glass cases have little room to throw stones at the “wet markets” of China and the developing world,  which sell live animals,  the Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods pig slaughterhouse […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Slaughter, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Fernandez, Kendaliyn Granville, Kim Cardova, Kristi Noem, Merritt Clifton, Sarah Hammond, Wendell Young IV

From gorillas to shelter dogs: animals caught in the COVID-19 crunch

March 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No animals other than bats & humans are known to get COVID-19,  but millions are affected by the human response             WASHINGTON D.C.––Animals and animal-related projects from Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo to National Institutes of Health-funded laboratories are feeling the impact of the international COVID-19 scare underway throughout early 2020,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Gabon, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Humphrey, David Grimm, Eric Hutchinson, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Jenny G. Zhang, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Rodney Muhumuza, Shirley McGreal

COVID-19 & “The Next Big One”:  Spillover revisited

March 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Science writer David Quammen saw COVID-19 coming COVID-19,  though renamed twice just in the first few months of 2020,  “is not as novel as you might think,”  explained veteran science writer David Quammen in the January 28,  2020 edition of The New York Times. Quammen,  72,  was uniquely positioned to comment,  not only because he […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Anderson G. McKendrick, David Quammen, Merritt Clifton, Peter Daszak, William Ogilvy Kermack, Zheng-Li Shi

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