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(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

McDonald’s McPlant: can it save the world from becoming McToast?

January 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

McPlant will save animals from becoming Big Macs––millions?  Billions? CHICAGO,  Illinois––Sixty years after the first McDonald’s attempt to introduce a meatless burger became perhaps the most notorious flop in fast food history,  the company appears poised to try again––and not a moment too soon for animals and the earth. Beginning on Valentine’s Day 2022,  600 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Anna Starostinetskaya, Beyond Meat, Dee-Ann Durbin, heme, Henry Spira, Hula Burger, Maxwell Rabb, Merritt Clifton

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

The Five Piggies of the Apocalypse, by John Robins

January 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Sheep & goats Tagged With: David Bennett, heart transplant, PPL Therapeutics, Revivicor

Are pigs among our closest kin? Heart transplant revives debate

January 12, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cloning & xenografts, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Kenya, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Bartley Griffith, David Bennett, Eugene McCarthy, Jack Hunter, Katrien Devolder, Megan Molteni, Merritt Clifton, Moshe Freedman, Muhammad Mohiuddin

Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé

January 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Brandon Shireman, Christine Cagle, Dena Jones, Marjorie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Vince Cagle

Jane Goodall joins voices against livestock gift charities

December 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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” […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, North Africa, Poultry, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Dawn Moncrief, GiveWell, Heifer International, Lester Brown, Maneka Gandhi, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Mia MacDonald, Richard Oppenlander

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