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Iowa belongs to Boss Hogg now. The stench? That’s money.

July 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Roasting pigs alive & smothering the state in pig manure is fine for farmers,  says Iowa law,  but errant individuals will be prosecuted             DES MOINES,  Iowa––Whatever happened to Jefferson Davis “J.D.” Hogg,  better known as Boss Hogg,  the insatiably greedy and unscrupulous villain of the 1979-1985 television series The Dukes of Hazzard? Rumor has […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Top, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Corey AGR Inc., Direct Action Everywhere, Elana Laber, Iowa Select Farms, Marina Bolotnikova, Matt Johnson, Merritt Clifton, Rembrandt Foods

Exotic animal sanctuarians race the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

June 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Animals in need,  unchecked breeding & abandonment,  limited resources,  & advancing age             TAMPA,  Florida––The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  according to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel,  are death by the sword,  famine,  wild beasts,  and plague.             But Ezekiel,  though generally believed to have been a vegetarian and perhaps a vegan,  was not […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Pigs, Reptiles, Sanctuaries, Turtles, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: American Tortoise Rescue, Carole Baskin, Kevin Antle, Lori Keene Rutledge, Martine Colette, Primarily Primates, Susan Tellem, Tiger King, Wally Swett, Wildlife Waystation

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Rooster’s Rescue: paint-ball profits (if any) did not sustain sanctuary

June 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Guns,  drugs,  & 71 neglected animals FLEMINGTON,  New Jersey––Among all the two-dozen odd busts of allegedly negligent animal rescues going down during the first six months of 2022,  the May 26,  2022 impoundment of 71 animals from Rooster’s Rescue Foundation Inc. in Flemington,  New Jersey,  might have stood out even if the property owner had […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Sanctuaries, Sheep & goats, USA Tagged With: Cherry Grove Farm, Frank Celi, Leonard Santos, Merritt Clifton, Michael Featherston, Richard Cottone, Rooster Featherston

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

Hearts out of place: transplants, pigs, chickens, “victories” & McDonald’s

March 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

If “victories” for farmed animals meant beans,  that would be a substantial improvement BALTIMORE,  Maryland;  WASHINGTON D.C.––David Bennett,  57,  who on January 7,  2022 became the first human to receive a heart transplanted from a genetically-modified pig,  died on March 8,  2022 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine hospital. “The biggest barrier to […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: CIWF, David Bennett, Henry Spira, HSUS, Humane Farming Association, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Mickey Dee, Ronald McDonald, Wayne Pacelle

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

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

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