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U.S. Supreme Court to Kansas:  Eat your ag-gag!

April 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, USA Tagged With: 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Merritt Clifton

Farmed animal product certifications “lack integrity,” investigators find

April 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: American Humane Certified, Farm Forward, Food In-Depth, Global Animal Partnership, Merritt Clifton, One Health Certified

Rodeo “wild cow milking”: living legacy of rich alleged child molester

March 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

One-time rodeo promoter Dr. Dan C. Trigg was not a man anyone wanted for a neighbor             CASTRO VALLEY, California;  TUCUMCARI, New Mexico––The Rowell Ranch Rodeo in Castro Valley,  California,  scheduled for May 20-22 ,  2022,  is “likely planning again to feature the brutal,  sometimes fatal,  and blatantly sexist ‘wild cow milking contest,’”  Action for […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Rodeo, Spectacles, Wild horses Tagged With: Dan C. Trigg, Donald Lee Mason, Dr. Ross Trigg, Eloise McFarland Trigg, Faye Mason Arries, Merritt Clifton, Rancho La Bamba, Steve L. Trigg, Steve T. Trigg, Tucumcari

(How) does salmonella grow on trees? Answer: it doesn’t, by Karen Davis, Ph.D.

February 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

But new findings confirm that COVID-19 and salmonella outbreaks––and most other zoonotic diseases––share a common source  Editors’ note:            On January 31,  2020,  two years plus a month ago,  United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis contributed the first ANIMALS 24-7 coverage of the global COVID-19 pandemic,  Wet markets or Walmart? Animal consumption & the coronavirus. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry Tagged With: Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, Kristian Andersen, Merritt Clifton, Nature News, ProMED

How to take down rodeo like a bull flipping a cowboy in 8 seconds or less

February 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The rodeo fall could be short,  with a hard landing in mud & manure by Steve Hindi Rodeos are held across North America, but have such a narrow fan base that the concerts accompanying the major U.S. rodeos routinely outdraw the actual rodeo events, often by a factor of ten-to-one or more. World Wrestling Federation […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles Tagged With: Professional Bull Riders, Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Red Alert,  the bull,  Schrödinger’s cat,  Mark Twain, Spartacus, & Steve Hindi

February 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Will anyone proclaim “I am Red Alert!”?             KNOXVILLE,  LOS ANGELES––One might imagine that even the Professional Bull Riders,  hostile as as they are to the humane values of mainstream society,  might shy away from thematic alignment with the disgraced Austrian-Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist turned pederast Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). On […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Andrew Giangola, David Gershwin, Merritt Clifton, Red Alert, Roy Honeycutt, Steve Hindi

Blurring the boundary between humans and other animals

January 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns Heinrich Himmler,  who founded the quasi-military police unit known as the SS [Schutzstaffel]and administered the Nazi death camps,  was initially a chicken farmer. According to Charles Patterson in his book Eternal Treblinka:  Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,  Himmler’s “agricultural studies and experience breeding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Boria Sax, Charles Patterson, Heinrich Himmler, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Midas Dekkers

Rodeo: busting up the animals in Nativity scenes in the name of Jesus Christ

January 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Cowboys for Christ, Di Evans, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, Gavin Ehringer, Joan Burbick, Larry McMurtry, Louise Serpa, PRCA, T.K. Hardy

Robert Dole: why did Pacelle, Amundson, & Bershadker inflate his record?

December 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Mice & rats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pigs, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Elizabeth Dole, Hubert Humphrey, Jesse Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Richard Nixon, Sara Amundson, Wayne Pacelle

Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

November 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Religion & philosophy, Scotland Tagged With: Amanda Little, Christine Chemnitz, Durwood Zaelke, Frank O'Mara, Ian Scoones, John Carmody, Lester Brown, Lisa O'Carroll, Merritt Clifton, Morwenna Coniam, Peter Flanagan

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