Roasting pigs alive & smothering the state in pig manure is fine for farmers, says Iowa law, but errant individuals will be prosecuted 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 series The Dukes of Hazzard? Rumor has […]
Giving you one more chance: USDA-APHIS says speak now or hold the pieces
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 […]
Exotic animal sanctuarians race the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Animals in need, unchecked breeding & abandonment, limited resources, & advancing age TAMPA, Florida––The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, according to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel, are death by the sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague. But Ezekiel, though generally believed to have been a vegetarian and perhaps a vegan, was not […]
USDA-APHIS wants your 2¢ on animal-related federal law enforcement––NOW!!!
“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 […]
Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia
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. […]
Rooster’s Rescue: paint-ball profits (if any) did not sustain sanctuary
Guns, drugs, & 71 neglected animals FLEMINGTON, New Jersey––Among all the two-dozen odd busts of allegedly negligent animal rescues going down during the first six months of 2022, the May 26, 2022 impoundment of 71 animals from Rooster’s Rescue Foundation Inc. in Flemington, New Jersey, might have stood out even if the property owner had […]
U.S. Supreme Court to Kansas: Eat your ag-gag!
Kansas “ag-gag” was oldest in the United States WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, 2022 rejected without comment an appeal by the State of Kansas against a January 2020 verdict by the U.S. District Court of Kansas, upheld by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in effect erased the oldest […]
Farmed animal product certifications “lack integrity,” investigators find
Food In-Depth & Farm Forward find antibiotics in “antibiotics-free” meat. Farm Forward cites much else wrong with the American Humane Certified, One Health Certified, & Global Animal Partnership labels SAN MATEO, California; PORTLAND, Oregon––The food testing company Food In-Depth and Farm Forward, a self-described nonprofit “team of strategists, campaigners, […]
Garbled stories show why wolverines need a defense lawyer
Rare 28-pound scavenger accused of killing a ton of sheep RICH COUNTY, Utah––A wolverine alleged to have killed 18 sheep six miles west of Randolph, Utah was briefly jailed on March 11, 2022, but––instead of a lynching––got off with a warning, an escort out of the county, and a radio collar to follow his whereabouts. […]
What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count
Only 4% of the toll of 1.76 million animals were “livestock predators,” but 44% were “invasive” starlings RIVERDALE, Maryland––Released on March 22, 2022, the USDA Wildlife Services program activity report for 2021 tells a different story from the sunny spin put on it by the accompanying media release from USDA Animal & Plant Health […]
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