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Hearts out of place: transplants, pigs, chickens, “victories” & McDonald’s

March 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

If “victories” for farmed animals meant beans,  that would be a substantial improvement BALTIMORE,  Maryland;  WASHINGTON D.C.––David Bennett,  57,  who on January 7,  2022 became the first human to receive a heart transplanted from a genetically-modified pig,  died on March 8,  2022 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine hospital. “The biggest barrier to […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: CIWF, David Bennett, Henry Spira, HSUS, Humane Farming Association, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Mickey Dee, Ronald McDonald, Wayne Pacelle

Afro-Vegan Society marks Black History Month 2022 with veg outreach

January 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Veguary” builds on a long,  strong tradition of African-American food ambassadors             BALTIMORE,  Maryland––The Afro-Vegan Society will again in 2022 mark Black History Month with Veguary,  “an online educational campaign celebrating black vegan trailblazers and providing culturally relevant workshops on plant-based eating,”  society cofounder Brenda Sanders announced on January 26,  2022. “Throughout the month,”  Sanders […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brenda Sanders, Dick Gregory, Merritt Clifton, Seba Johnson, Tabitha Bonita Brown, Tracye McQuirter

McDonald’s McPlant: can it save the world from becoming McToast?

January 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

McPlant will save animals from becoming Big Macs––millions?  Billions? CHICAGO,  Illinois––Sixty years after the first McDonald’s attempt to introduce a meatless burger became perhaps the most notorious flop in fast food history,  the company appears poised to try again––and not a moment too soon for animals and the earth. Beginning on Valentine’s Day 2022,  600 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Anna Starostinetskaya, Beyond Meat, Dee-Ann Durbin, heme, Henry Spira, Hula Burger, Maxwell Rabb, Merritt Clifton

Jane Goodall joins voices against livestock gift charities

December 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Livestock gifts,  Goodall warns,  “can result in unintended consequences”             WASHINGTON D.C.––Primatologist,  anthropologist,  and philanthropist Jane Goodall,  87,  on December 20,  2021 added her globally influential voice to those of the growing number of critics of livestock gift charities. Livestock gift charities include,  most prominently,  Heifer International,  Oxfam, World Vision, and the Cargill’s “Hatching Hope” […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, North Africa, Poultry, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Dawn Moncrief, GiveWell, Heifer International, Lester Brown, Maneka Gandhi, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Mia MacDonald, Richard Oppenlander

The animal rights movement is divided on abortion, by Vasu Murti

December 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Even PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk admits “We’re divided” The long-awaited introduction of RU-486-based contraceptive dog and cat food has been delayed for at least 36 years,  and may have been permanently forestalled by the use of RU-486 as Mifrepristone,  the drug used to medically induce abortion,  as ANIMALS 24-7 recently detailed in What RU-486 means […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Andrew Linzey, Cesar Chavez, Charles Camosy, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Gregory, Frank Hoffman, Ingrid Newkirk, James Dawson, Kristen Day, Mary Eberstadt

Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?

December 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns “Without guilt improvement is drastically diminished.” – Thomas Coates, Facebook comment, November 22, 2021 The fact that animals are suffering and dying for appetites that can be satisfied in many other ways makes some people,  perhaps many, uncomfortable,  though not necessarily because of guilt.  People […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: B.R. Myers, Humphry Primatt, Jeff Sebo, Karen Davis, Leah Garcés, Marc Gunther, Thomas Coates

The Supremacist Syndrome, by Peter Marsh

September 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

How Domination Underpins Slavery, Genocide, the Exploitation of Women, & the Maltreatment of Animals Lantern Publishing & Media,  128 Second Place,  Brooklyn,  NY 11231;  www.lanternpm.org. Available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Many ANIMALS 24-7 readers will remember Supremacist Syndrome author and New Hampshire attorney Peter Marsh as an occasional presenter […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Belgium, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cats, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, DRC, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Meat issues, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Adolf Hitler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Heinrich Himmler, Jane Bowdler, King Leopold II, Merritt Clifton, Peter Marsh, Raoul Wallenberg, Thomas Bowdler

Charges in police killing of veg animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain

September 2, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

32-count criminal indictment names three cops & two paramedics             AURORA, Colorado––The August 30,  2019 forced ketamine overdose death of animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain,  23,  who declared his belief in vegetarian nonviolence with his dying breath,  on September 1,  2021 at last brought criminal charges against the three police officers and two paramedics in […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Jared Polis, Jason Rosenblatt, Jeremy Cooper, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Woodyard, Peter Cichuniec, Randy Roedema

Miyoko court win: the world doesn’t owe Big Dairy a living

August 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Dairy industry can kiss Miyoko’s vegan butter,  says judge SAN FRANCISCO, California––Jiminy Cricket!  The world doesn’t owe the dairy industry a living,  and Miyoko’s Creamery,  of Petaluma,  California,  does not need to change its advertising and product labeling just because the dairy industry would rather play the bull fiddle in court and before legislatures than […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amanda Zaluckyj, Chinny Krishna, LaVone Dyer, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko Schinner, Richard Seeborg

If plants have feelings, how does this affect our advocacy for animals?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, president of United Poultry Concerns Can a tree be “strategically responsive, and exhibit kinship, or a sense of self? Is a tree intelligent?” ––Rebecca Giggs, “The Trees Are Talking,” The Atlantic, July /August 2021,  published online as A Better Way to Look at Trees. This intriguing article in The Atlantic recounts […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Helen Nearing, Jonathan Balcombe, Norm Phelps

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