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Tyson executive bust upstages three dog attack fatalities in a week

November 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Mauling death of child just a few miles away gets less coverage than John Tyson’s pants             SPRINGDALE,  Arkansas––The November 6,  2022 arrest of Tyson Foods chief financial officer John Tyson,  32,  might be said to have upstaged the Tyson Foods slaughter of 155,000 cows, 461,000 pigs,  and 45 million chickens during the next week,  a […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Donald Wayne Abner, Dwight C. Jones, Evangeline Brooks, John Tyson, Melissa D. Wolke, Merritt Clifton

Giving you one more chance: USDA-APHIS says speak now or hold the pieces

June 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Feds want your input on Animal Welfare Act enforcement & much,  much more;  comment period extended another 30 days WASHINGTON D.C.––”In response to requests, stakeholders will have an additional 30 days to share their thoughts on the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) strategic plan to guide the […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feral animals, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Poultry, Slaughter, Slaughter, Urban wildlife, USA, Welfare, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Welfare Act, Horse Protection Act, Merritt Clifton, Sharla M. Jennings, Wildlife Services

USDA-APHIS wants your 2¢ on animal-related federal law enforcement––NOW!!!

June 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Come on,  animal advocates,  let’s move fast!  Your big chance has come at last!  Want a chance to have your say?  Tell it to the USDA!”             WASHINGTON D.C.––The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS] is,  until the end of July 2022,  offering the public a unique chance to kibbitz on an “APHIS […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live transport, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Mice & rats, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Show, Slaughter, Spectacles, Urban wildlife, USA, Welfare, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Animal Welfare Act, Beth Clifton, BillyGoBoy, Clant Seay, Horse Protection Act, Merritt Clifton

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Blurring the boundary between humans and other animals

January 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns Heinrich Himmler,  who founded the quasi-military police unit known as the SS [Schutzstaffel]and administered the Nazi death camps,  was initially a chicken farmer. According to Charles Patterson in his book Eternal Treblinka:  Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,  Himmler’s “agricultural studies and experience breeding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Boria Sax, Charles Patterson, Heinrich Himmler, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Midas Dekkers

Robert Dole: why did Pacelle, Amundson, & Bershadker inflate his record?

December 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Robert Dole,  at best,  had a good record on animal issues for a Trumpist––but he was no Hubert Humphrey,  nor even a Richard Nixon Robert Joseph Dole,  98,  the 1996 Republican presidential nominee,  U.S. Senator from Kansas 1969-1996,  and a Kansas member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1960-1968,  died on December 5,  2021. Lauded […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Mice & rats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pigs, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Elizabeth Dole, Hubert Humphrey, Jesse Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Richard Nixon, Sara Amundson, Wayne Pacelle

Moral injury in animal advocates and nonhuman animals

October 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

and the commonality of being reduced to “lesser beings” by Karen Davis, PhD,  president, United Poultry Concerns “Some people seemed unfazed when witnessing cruelty, but I could feel the pain of every living organism through my bones, as if it were my own.” ––Elin Gundersen, “Understanding the Power of Compassion,”.  VEGAN VOICES: Essays by Inspiring […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Chickens, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live transport, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Science, Slaughter, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Anthony Feinstein, Clementien Koenegras, Janine di Giovanni

Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse

September 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, The Americas, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Anita Krajnc, Barry Kent MacKay, Marc Bekoff, Mark Powell, Merritt Clifton, Regan Russell, Tita Zed

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

July 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Karen Davis, Laura Alexander, Martha Rosenberg, Virgil Butler

Why Europe will not eat U.S. & Australian wild horses

May 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch & Danish seizures of illegally trafficked German horse meat do not mean revived demand             WASHINGTON D.C.,  BRUSSELS––Yes,  the Bureau of Land Management under Donald Trump appointee William Perry Pendley is desperately eager to dispose of as many as 45,000 wild horses in holding pens,  plus about 68,000 of the estimated 95,000 wild horses […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Slaughter, United Kingdom, Wild horses Tagged With: Jan Fasen, Manuel Coto, Merritt Clifton, Toby Sterling, William Perry Pendley, Willy Selten

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