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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

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

Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming

October 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21,  1947––October 13,  2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alice Herrington, Julie Christie, Myriam Alaux, Peter Singer, Victor Schonfeld

Factory-farmed pigs get a break from vaccine breakthrough

May 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

For factory-farmed pigs,  avoiding African swine fever may be about as good as the grim news gets GREENPORT, New York––With all eyes on the progress of vaccination against the global COVID-19 pandemic,  which has to date killed nearly 3.5 million people,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service in early May quietly announced a breakthrough […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Kenya, Meat issues, Pigs, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Uncategorized, Vietnam, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Manuel Borca, Merritt Cifton, Plum Island

Barn fires begin to be noticed by animal advocates but not yet agribiz

May 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Animal Welfare Institute & Humane Society International make recommendations             WASEKA, Minnesota––Twelve thousand pigs,  including 9,000 piglets and 3,000 sows,  died in a May 16, 2021 fire that razed two barns at the Woodville Pork Farm in Waseca,  Minnesota. Nine different rural fire departments sent water tankers,  but as the first barn was already fully […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Canada, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Pigs, Poultry, The Americas Tagged With: Alice Prygoski, Animal Welfare Institute, Hickman's Family Farm, Humane Society International, Merritt Clifton

U.K. “animal sentience” law: “victory” claimed before the fight begins

May 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Recognizing animal sentience is part of an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare” yet to be written into draft bills,  let alone passed by Parliament LONDON, U.K.––A week-plus after the Conservative government of the United Kingdom introduced an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare,”  much of the animal welfare sector worldwide has already declared “victory,”  with the […]

Filed Under: African species, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Cats, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Scotland, United Kingdom, Welfare, Wildlife Tagged With: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Countryside Alliance, Edward Scott, George Eustice, Hunting Act, Merritt Clifton, Theresa May

The Origins & Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia & Europe  

May 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Jim Mason Edited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning, and Stephen Shennan Routledge, 2013,  https://www.routledge.com/.  354 pages hardcover,  also available in paperback and Kindle formats.  This book is an academic work, a collection of recent writings by zooarchologists (or archeozoologists) on the origins of animal domestication in the prehistoric Middle […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Sheep & goats Tagged With: James Conolly, Jim Mason, Katie Manning, Keith Dobney, Stephen Shennan, Sue Colledge

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