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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Blurring the boundary between humans and other animals

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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” […]