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

July 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

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

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

Law prof: more jail time for cruelty does not advance animal rights

March 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Institutional offenders remain untouched by felony cruelty penalties DENVER––“More prosecution will never lead to greater animal rights.  Longer sentences have not incrementally advanced the standing of animals in society,”  argues Sturm College of Law professor Justin Marceau in the March 20,  2021 edition of the Harvard Law Review Forum. Marceau is also the Brooks Institute Faculty […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Justin Marceau, Merritt Clifton

Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too

November 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban,  & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor             BERKELEY,  DENVER,  NEW YORK CITY––While the races for the U.S. Presidency,  control of the Senate and House of Representatives grip the nation on Election Day 2020,  animal […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Aidan Hill, Allie Feldman Taylor, Frances Dinkelspiel, Merritt Clifton, Michael B. Hancock, Wayne Hsiung

Why has Project Chimps gone ape$#!T over ex-staff complaints?

June 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Humane Society of the U.S. affiliate moves to enforce “ag-gag” against whistleblowers             BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Former Project Chimps staff members Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhoogt,  as well as their criticisms of the north Georgia sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in laboratories,  might still be almost unknown to the world,  except that Project Chimps recently sued […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Bruce Wagman, Crystal Alba, Donny Moss, Jenny Desmond, Jim Desmond, Kathy Guillermo, Lindsay Vanderhoogt, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Kissel

Jill Biden upstages vegans’ attempt to upstage husband Joe

March 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Kept “Let Dairy Die!” signs from grabbing more than a split second of TV time LOS ANGELES––Michael Bloomberg and spokespersons for Direct Action Everywhere sounded much like each other on March 4,  2020,  congratulating themselves for fiascos that respectively knocked Bloomberg out of the U.S. presidential race and made a national heroine of Jill Biden,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Laws & standards, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Ashley Froud, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ellen Cranley, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, John Sexton, Kecia Doolittle, Maria Cramer, Merritt Clifton, Priya Sawhney, Sarah Segal

Miyoko’s taking the case for vegan cheese to the people as well as the court

February 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Will grill vegan cheese sandwiches as well as California Department of Food & Agriculture officials PETALUMA,  California––Taking the case for plant-based cheese products straight to the people,  as well as to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,  Miyoko’s Creamery on March 4,  2020 intends to begin distributing 15,000 free vegan cheddar and pepperjack […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Kristine G. Baker, LaVone Dyer, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko Schinner, Richard Seeborg

Three veg fun foods that terrify the animal-based food industry

July 14, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Impossible Burgers, cell-cultured ice cream, & goldfish crackers––& goldfish crackers may scare the animal-based food industry most of all             EMERYVILLE, California––Now you can order vegan Impossible Burgers to be delivered for a midnight meal,  as thousands of people have already done. As of July 11,  2019,  you could have real vegan ice cream for […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Elaine Watson, Jessica Almy, Kat Smith, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Lima, Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya

Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd

June 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence,  as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy,  meat,  and poultry consumption among younger […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Becky sandstedt, Gail Eisnitz, H. Glenn Esbenshade, Lynn Becker, Merritt Clifton, Nick Weaver, Stan Curtis, Temple Grandin, Trent Loos

Beyond Meat: supermarket invasion trips vegan police alarms

April 13, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“Plant-based patties” accepted as “meat”––& that scares the meat industry too             OAK HARBOR, Washington––The entire future of animal agriculture and plant-based alternatives flashed before our eyes a few days ago at the Safeway supermarket. Nobody died,  certainly no animals,  but that was just the point. We were at Safeway buying groceries a few minutes […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Chas Newkey Burden, Daniel Boffey, Donald Watson, Impossible Burger, Isabelle Z, Merritt Clifton, Molly Scott Cato, Morningstar Farms

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