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Iconic animal use events fall to COVID-19: “Running of the bulls” is latest

April 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Social distancing” also shuts down SeaWorld, seal hunt, fur auctions, Kentucky Derby,  & the carriage horses in Central Park             PAMPLONA,  Spain ––The 700-year-old Festival of San Fermin, featuring bullfights and the “running of the bulls” through the cobbled streets of the oldest part of Pamplona, Spain, was on April 21, 2020 indefinitely postponed due […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal racing, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur trapping, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mediterranean, Racing, Scandinavia, Spain, Spectacles, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ana Elizalde, Ernest Hemingway, Kentucky Derby, Kopenhagen Fur, Merritt Clifton, Saga Furs

Four black leaders who built the humane movement

January 19, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Beautiful Jim, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, Janet M. Davis, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, William Key

Breakthrough may scratch horses from the Iditarod legend

January 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Yes, horses! ANCHORAGE,  Alaska;  Braunschweig,  Germany–– A German immunologist, funded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,  has reportedly made a scientific discovery that may scratch horses from the substance of the Iditarod serum run legend. Horses in the Iditarod Trail Race,  the 938-mile world’s most famous and most controversial dog sled race? Yes, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dog sledding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Science, Sled dog racing, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Ed Rohn, Emil von Behring, Gunnar Kaasen, Kai Kupferschmidt, Leonhard Seppala, Mark Klempner, Merritt Clifton, Michael Hust

Montreal carriage horse trade ends, after 354 years

January 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Calèche” industry was long intertwined with defunct harness track,  start of the Premarin industry,  horse slaughter,  and a notorious glue factory              MONTREAL, Quebec––The last vehicle-pulling horses in Montreal,  Quebec,  are to be off the streets before sunset on December 31,  2019––an hour which,  as this article is posted,  has already come and gone. “Far […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, PMU, Racing, The Americas, Working horses Tagged With: Christiane Vadnais, Denis Coderre, Denis Murray, Luc Desparois, Merritt Clifton, Valerie Plante

Fire & ice puts Australian koalas and Icelandic horses at urgent risk

December 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1982 recommended “50/50 fire and ice” as the best response to a crisis.  That isn’t working for either Icelandic horses or koalas.              REYKJAVIK, Iceland;  SYDNEY, Australia––Eco-disasters afflicting Icelandic horses and Australian koalas starkly illustrate extreme and contrasting effects of global warming as 2019 comes to an end. Hundreds of Icelandic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Iceland, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Wild horses, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ingunn Reynisdótttir, Magnús Ásgeir Elíasson, Merritt Clifton, Ragnar Tómas, Sigríður Björnsdóttir

Race track deaths upstage notice of horses “retired” due to injury

December 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

45 horses dead on three Southern California tracks during 2019 seasons––and 39 at Belmont alone LOS ALAMITOS,  California––Two horse deaths in the first race of the next-to-last-day of the Los Alamitos Race Course on December 14,  2019 renewed attention to high injury toll in horse racing,  but upstaged the disintegration of the California Equine Retirement […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Slaughter, Sports, USA

California Equine Retirement Foundation runs into deep muck

December 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Current leadership allegedly squandered assets & 27-year positive track record under ousted founder SAN JACINTO,  California––Among the 80-odd animal shelters,  sanctuaries,  and nonprofit rescue organizations foundering in 2019,  the California Equine Retirement Foundation (CERF) has probably run through the most money over the past five years. Along the way,  CERF blew the the best reputation […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Donkeys, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Sports, USA Tagged With: Carrie L. Ard, Grace Belcoure, Helen Meredith, Josephine Italiano, Margaret Ransom, Merritt Clifton, Paul Young

Are NYC foie gras ban & other new “pro-animal” bills all they’re quacked up to be?

November 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“Horsefeathers,”  says Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages founder NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Voters For Animal Rights was quick to declare victory on October 30,  2019 when the New York City Council passed a bill banning the sale of foie gras from force-fed ducks and geese and a bill creating a Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare within […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Welfare, Working horses Tagged With: Allie Feldman Taylor, Bill de Blasio, Elizabeth Forel, Gary Kaskel, Merritt Clifton, Verena Dobnik

Santa Anita deaths just a fraction of the toll in horse racing

October 31, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Breeding & slaughter drive the industry             SANTA ANITA,  California;  SYDNEY, Australia––A year-long nightmare string of fatal racehorse breakdowns continued at Santa Anita Park through October 2019 with the deaths of horses named Emtech,  Colonel,  Satchel Paige,  and C Q Covergirl,  the 35th fatality on the Santa Anita dirt,  turf,  and training tracks since December […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Show, Slaughter, Sports Tagged With: Ariella Hayek, Caro Meldom-Hanna, Josh Peter, Merritt Clifton, Paul McGreevy, Unwanted Horse Coalition, wastage

Wild horse problem needs 15 years, $5 billion, says acting BLM chief

October 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“I’m not going to speculate on what Congress is going to do about money,”  Pendley adds.             FORT COLLINS,   Colorado;  CALGARY,  Alberta––Returning the U.S. wild horse population to the officially estimated sustainable level of about 27,000,  without mass roundups for  slaughter,  will take 15 years and $5 billion of investment,  acting Bureau of Land Management […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, USA, Wild horses Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Astrid Kodric-Brown, Erick Lundgren, Erik Molvar, Merritt Clifton, Monty Irby, Priscilla Feral, Scott Sonner, Wayne Pacelle, William Perry Pendley

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