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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

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

Sperm-sorting comes to India through cow-loving Modi government

January 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Slippery business may stop the bull calf surplus          NEW DELHI,  India––Cracking down hard against illegal cattle slaughter and exports to slaughter,  while boosting milk production,  the Hindi nationalist Nahendra Modi regime ruling India since 2014 caused the perennial Indian bull calf surplus to explode. Now,  however,  the Modi government has reportedly […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Buddhism, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amul, Anand Milk Federation, Eileen Weintraub, Help Animals India, Merritt Clifton, Mohandas Gandhi, Moraji Desai, Visakha SPCA

Why ASPCA pitch “Take a Bite Out of Farm Animal Cruelty” makes us puke 

January 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Ads at your local supermarket probably go farther on behalf of farmed animals by Irene Muschel I just opened my computer and found myself looking at a startling American SPCA fund-raising email that encourages people to support the breeding,  raising, and slaughter of animals destined for human consumption. The email,  captioned “Take a Bite Out […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Irene Muschel

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

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

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