by Eric Mills, coordinator, Action for Animals, Oakland, California “Cowboys, sensing—like gorillas—that their time has passed, cling ever more desperately to anachronistic styles, not willing to admit that the myth has degenerated, the traditions eroded to a point where attempting to sustain them falls somewhere between silliness and the outright ridiculous.” ––Larry McMurtry in the […]
The Five Piggies of the Apocalypse, by John Robins
Will pig-to-human transplants cause farmers to grow hearts? [John Robins is director of Ethical Promotions Ltd and Campaigns Consultant to Animal Concern, incorporating the Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society, founded in 1876.] How much is a pig worth? A farmer in Fife producing free-range organically grown animals for the top end of the meat market might expect […]
Are pigs among our closest kin? Heart transplant revives debate
Ethics, genetics, & relationship of pigs to humans BALTIMORE, Maryland––The world’s first pig-to-human heart transplant, performed on January 7, 2022 at the University of Maryland Medical Center, may or may not extend the life of transplant recipient David Bennett, 57. Certainly it shortened the life of the pig, trucked five hours from a company […]
Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé
Horse farm fire is horrific; fire toll on poultry & pigs is thousands of times worse MARTINSVILLE, Indiana––A pre-dawn fire ripped through the Springcliff Farm foaling operation in Martinsville, Indiana on January 6, 2022, killing an as yet unknown number of horses. “The call came in around 4:50 a.m. from a neighbor,” White River Township […]
Jane Goodall joins voices against livestock gift charities
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” […]
Robert Dole: why did Pacelle, Amundson, & Bershadker inflate his record?
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 […]
Bernard Rollin, 78, addressed the big issues but often fumbled the facts
Author of Animal Rights & Human Morality and The Unheeded Cry FORT COLLINS, Colorado––Bernard Elliot Rollin, Ph.D., 78, better known as just Bernie Rollin, died on November 19, 2021. Remembered and appreciated as an entertaining, provocative, and often persuasive bridge among the animal rights, animal welfare, academic, veterinary, and legal communities during his 51 years […]
Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too
Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,” specifically methane emitted by cattle, “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021, during the run-up to the 2021 […]
Hotter climate makes “no-see-ums” a global threat to horned, hoofed animals
Bighorn sheep, deer, goats & cattle are among vulnerable species OKANAGAN, B.C.; BISMARCK, N.D.; ALBANY, N.Y.; MADRID, Spain; LISBON, Portugal––Hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming as one of the most ubiquitous and insidious effects on animals due to global warming. Indeed, hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming even before global warming began visibly disrupting climate and […]
Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming
Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21, 1947––October 13, 2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]
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