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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

Has the world-wide vegan revolution started — in Israel?

January 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The Vegan Revolution. Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism by Richard Schwartz Lantern Publishing & Media, 2020. Reviewed by Keith Akers Any other book titled The Vegan Revolution,  if one didn’t look at the subtitle,  would not necessarily seem to have anything to do especially with Judaism or Israel.  But from page 1 forward,  Richard Schwartz […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Keith Akers, Richard H. Schwartz

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

September 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: BL Cozad Jr., Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

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

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

Meat-heavy diet must go the way of Neanderthals, German economists warn

December 24, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Bigger people will do better in a smaller world on grains & veggies GOETTINGEN, Germany––Better-fed people get bigger. This trend has been evident in paleontology since our omnivorous but mostly plant-eating Cro-Magnon ancestors circa 40,000 years ago gradually reduced our much older,  shorter,  and mostly carnivorous Neanderthal cousins to a handful of recessive genetic traits […]

Filed Under: Africa, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Damian Carrington, Lutz Depenbusch, Merritt Clifton, Stephan Klasen

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

Will feral pigs eat Hong Kong before Hong Kong eats the pigs?

May 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Feral pigs may be poached as African swine fever & trade war cut off pig imports              HONG KONG––A three-way collision among African swine fever,  feral pigs,  and the global pork industry,  U.S. interests included,  may be only days away in Hong Kong. Whatever the outcome,  pigs––both factory-farmed and living free––are already the big net […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Alice Su, Karthi Martelli, Merritt Clifton, Paolo Martelli, Roni Wong, Tam Garland

Can plant-based “meat” be made to satisfy the Yellow Vests?

December 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Demand for more & cheaper meat underlies strikes over high fuel cost             PARIS,  SAN FRANCISCO–– The “yellow vest” riots ripping apart France,  bringing at least 412 arrests on December 1,  2018 alone,  more than 260 injuries,  half of them in Paris,  and two reported deaths,  are behind the scenes adding a social peace-and-justice imperative […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Other animals & science topics, Research & testing, Science, Spain, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alshakim Nelson, Giuseppe Scionti, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Josh Tetrick, Mark Post, Merritt Clifton, Nick Giordano, Patrick O. Brown, Tom Levitt, Yaakov Nahmias

Shellfishing & oil minions blame sea otters for effects of global warming

March 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Still endangered after century of recovery, sea otters become scapegoats             ANCHORAGE,  Alaska––Sea otters are now taking the rap from frustrated Alaskan shellfishers for one of the best-documented and longest foreseen effects of global warming:  oceanic acidification,  inhibiting the ability of species such as abalone,  urchins,  clams,  crabs and sea cucumbers to build and maintain shells. […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Crustaceans, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food security, Fur trapping, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Science, Sea otters, U.S., USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Dan Sullivan, Dolly Gee, Don Young, Howard Granville Sharpe, Kyle Herbert, Laine Welch, Lisa Murkowski, McDowell Group, Merritt Clifton, Nathaniel Herz, Zaz Hollander

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