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, […]
Rodeo “wild cow milking”: living legacy of rich alleged child molester
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 […]
(How) does salmonella grow on trees? Answer: it doesn’t, by Karen Davis, Ph.D.
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. […]
How to take down rodeo like a bull flipping a cowboy in 8 seconds or less
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 […]
Red Alert, the bull, Schrödinger’s cat, Mark Twain, Spartacus, & Steve Hindi
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 […]
Blurring the boundary between humans and other animals
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 […]
Rodeo: busting up the animals in Nativity scenes in the name of Jesus Christ
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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