Accused cockfighters could take lessons from cowpokes & Mickey Mouse in how to cut & spin losses BURBANK, California; CHEYENNE, Wyoming; IRONTON, Ohio––Suspected cockfighting promoters James and Beckie Newcomb are unlikely to ever be accused of possessing the business smarts behind either the 125-year-old Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo and concert series, or Walt Disney […]
Pit bull & animal neglect defense lawyer pleads in murder-for-hire plot
Seven felonies & four misdemeanors could bring life sentence EVERGREEN, Colorado––Animal Law Center founder Jennifer Reba Edwards Emmi, 43, previously best known for defending alleged dangerous dogs and accused animal hoarders, is due to be sentenced on August 16, 2021 after pleading guilty to seven felonies and four misdemeanors. Edwards on June 28, 2021 pleaded […]
Eaglet & redtail sacrifice: ancient defense against cannibal raiders
Cruel practice is remnant of crueler history FLAGSTAFF, Arizona––As many as 40 newly hatched golden eagles and at least as many fledgling redtailed hawks may be stolen by Hopi warriors from nests within the Wupatki National Monument north of Flagstaff this spring, as in every spring of the 21st century, for eventual use in sacrifices originating out […]
The Origins & Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia & Europe
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 […]
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason
Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages, paperback. $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media, www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature, published 28 years after the first edition, is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction, in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]
Vultures: canaries in the pharmaceutical waste coal mine?
Diclofenac-related vulture death in Spain may point toward a much bigger problem Should the end times be near, whether through global warming, loss of fish from the oceans, nuclear war, or any of myriad other calamities, vanishing vultures might be among the early harbingers of the apocalypse. Vultures might be expected to descend on the […]
Aloha Rodeo: animal advocates, Disney, & Cheyenne showdown
Will forthcoming film “glorify steer roping” & help to revive rodeo, or help to finish it? UPDATE: The online entertainment periodical Deadline on May 18, 2021 announced that it had “learned that Disney is no longer moving forward with the [Aloha Rodeo] project.” CHEYENNE, Wyoming––Walt Disney Inc., Cheyenne Frontier Days, and a coalition of animal […]
Why are some Fort Polk horse rescuers celebrating the births of surplus foals?
Another Fort Polk “rescuer” faces charges in Florida horse deaths FORT POLK, Louisiana––Why are some wild horse rescuers in Louisiana celebrating the births of multiple foals who have nowhere to go except from sanctuary to sanctuary, if they are lucky? Why were alleged dealers in horses for slaughter Crystal LeBron, Gary Thompson, Jacob Thompson, […]
Colorado pit bull defense lawyer charged in alleged murder-for-hire plot
Animal Law Center founder Jennifer Edwards now has more in common with “Joe Exotic” than just initials and notoriety EVERGREEN, Colorado––Animal Law Center founder Jennifer Reba Edwards, 43, central to efforts to overturn and weaken Colorado dangerous dog laws, now has more in common with the notorious “Joe Exotic” than just the “JE” initials […]
Four black leaders who built the humane movement
More people recognized William Key, John W. Lemon, Richard Carroll, & F. Rivers Barnwell in their own time than would have recognized ASPCA founder Henry Bergh INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––“I am the only colored speaker on the program, and in fact I have not seen a single colored visitor to it,” wrote the Reverend Richard Carroll […]
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