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Starring Miyoko Schinner in “The Decline & Fall of the Dairy Empire”

March 5, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

The Romans imagine they are still in charge while the Visigoths & Ostrogoths fight over the spoils of conquest SAN FRANCISCO,  California––Imagine the U.S. dairy industry as the Roman empire,  Miyoko Schinner as Alaric the Visigoth,  who sacked Rome in 410 A.D.,  and the venture capitalists who ousted her from Miyoko’s Creamery in a recent […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alaric the Visigoth, Anna Starostinetskaya, Dan Buckstaff, Lisa Bloom, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko's Creamery

Would you shoot bison for scratching their butts on your house?

February 24, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Bison leaving Yellowstone National Park looking for something to eat are shot in record numbers at the Montana border HELENA,  Montana––With unusually heavy snow driving bison out of Yellowstone National Park into Montana in record numbers,  and bison being killed in record numbers too for following their ancient migration route from the Rocky Mountains into […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Deer & other horned species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Buffalo Field Campaign, Chris Geremia, Gallatin, George Wuerthner, Merritt Clifton, National Park Service

What Miyoko’s Creamery lawsuit alleges Miyoko Schinner did

February 21, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

& what a few other good lawyers think of the case             SONOMA,  California––Perhaps the most surprising part of Miyoko’s PBC vs. Miyoko Schinner,  the lawsuit filed on February 16,  2022 by Miyoko’s Creamery against the ousted founder of the company,  is the demand for a jury trial. As a legal ploy,  that makes sense:  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: August Vega, Dale Giali, James Joaquin, Jon Blair, Louis Kanganis, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Simon

Los Angeles rodeo clowns hide behind girls riding sidesaddle

December 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

And behind anyone else who ever once rode a horse or trained a dog LOS ANGELES––Why are macho cowpokes and bull-riders,  many with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks,  abruptly playing up what they term in campaign literature “the rich cultural history of California rodeo”? To translate,  rodeo promoters and participants are suddenly hiding behind […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Rodeo, Spectacles Tagged With: Bill Pickett, charreada, escaramuza, Merritt Clifton, Protect The Harvest, Steve Hindi, Western Justice, Western Sports Industry Coalition

Alleged game farm money-laundering may oust South African president

December 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Cyril Ramaphosa raised animals to hunt,  purportedly had $580,000 stashed in his sofa,  & was suspected of taking a bribe linked to $42 million scam by David Wills,  former Humane Society of the U.S. exec doing life for child sex trafficking             JOHANNESBURG––Win or lose a confidence vote at the African National Congress convention beginning on […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Cattle & dairy, Deer & other horned species, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, South Africa, Wildlife Tagged With: Ankole, Cyril Ramaphosa, David Wills, Gavin Watson, Hazim Mustafa, Merritt Clifton, Phala Phala

UPDATE: Iowa belongs to Boss Hogg now. The stench? That’s money.

November 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Roasting pigs alive & smothering the state in pig manure is fine for corporate farmers,  says Iowa law,  but errant individuals will be prosecuted.  One was just convicted & sentenced.             DES MOINES,  Iowa––Whatever happened to Jefferson Davis “J.D.” Hogg,  better known as Boss Hogg,  the insatiably greedy and unscrupulous villain of the 1979-1985 television […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Corey AGR Inc., Direct Action Everywhere, Elana Laber, Iowa Select Farms, Marina Bolotnikova, Matt Johnson, Merritt Clifton, Rembrandt Foods

“Cultural” defenses for charreada & cockfighting crumble

November 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Two charreada promoters busted in Boone County,  Illinois;  Burmese cockfighting ring busted in Wells County,  Indiana;  Los Angeles close to banning bucking straps & prods GENEVA,  Illinois––Suspecting persons involved in an October 23,  2022 charreada rodeo had been charged with cruelty,  but previously unable to obtain the details,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on November […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Rodeo, Spectacles, Welfare Tagged With: Aung Myint, Jackie Cota, Jose Luis P. Ramirez, Kan Lay, Kitty Block, Ma Nyun Sun, Merritt Clifton, Mexican Federation of Charreria, Steve Hindi, Suzanne Rustaff

Boone County “Mexican rodeo” bucks Mexican rodeo rules

November 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

If Boone County mayhem is “Mexican culture,”  why doesn’t it follow the Mexican rulebook? BELVIDERE, Illinois––Two months of pretense by public officials in Boone County,  Illinois,  that violent abuse of steers and horses at local charreada or Mexican-style participant rodeos can be defended as part of Mexican-American culture appeared to disintegrate on November 3,  2022 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, USA, Working horses Tagged With: charreada, charro, Diane Zimmerman, Drew Bliss, Janet Enoch, Karla M. Maville, Merritt Clifton, Mexican Federation of Charreria, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness. Steve Hindi

Excelsior Hog Farm protest leaders Soranno & Schafer get 30 days each

October 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Activist couple also get year on probation.  Factory farmers get apoplexy. ABBOTSFORD,  British Columbia,  Canada––Convicted by jury on July 12,  2022 on charges of breaking and entering and mischief for their part in exposing alleged animal abuse at the Excelsior Hog Farm in Abbotsford,  British Columbia in April 2019,  husband-and-wife vegan activists Nick Schafer and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Adam Karp, British Colombia SPCA, Calvin Binnendyk, Fritz Verhoeven, Merritt Clifton, Roy Sasano

Acquittal of “open rescue” activists rattles factory farms from Utah to China

October 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung & co-defendant Paul Picklesimer were prosecuted for “stealing” two piglets left to die ST. GEORGE, Utah––Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung, defending himself, and co-defendant Paul Darwin Picklesimer, represented by veteran Salt Lake City lawyer Mary Corporon, were on October 8, 2022 acquitted by jury on all charges pertaining […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, China, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Amy Soranno, Circle Four Farms, Merritt Clifton, Nick Schafer, Paul Darwin Picklesimer, Smithfield Foods, Wayne Hsiung

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