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

November 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Roasting pigs alive & smothering the state in pig manure is fine for corporate farmers,  says Iowa law,  but errant individuals will be prosecuted.  One was just convicted & sentenced.             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 […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, 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

Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

November 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,”  specifically methane emitted by cattle,  “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,”  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021,  during the run-up to the 2021 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Religion & philosophy, Scotland Tagged With: Amanda Little, Christine Chemnitz, Durwood Zaelke, Frank O'Mara, Ian Scoones, John Carmody, Lester Brown, Lisa O'Carroll, Merritt Clifton, Morwenna Coniam, Peter Flanagan

E. coli kills yet another child who visited a petting zoo

July 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Third known petting zoo fatality since 2011 SAN DIEGO, California––Jedidiah King Cabezuela,  age 2,  on June 24,  2019 died from hemolytic uremic syndrome,  an apparent complication of exposure to shiga toxin-producing e. coli bacteria two weeks earlier at the San Diego County Fair. “The County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency said the […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horse & livestock shows, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Sheep & goats, Zoos Tagged With: Aedin Grey, Colton Guay, Gage Lefevers, Jedidiah King Cabezuela, Merritt Clifton, Myles Herschaft, Scott Weese, Tim Fennell

Live animal markets in New York City: a cut-throat business at best

August 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Customs change with waves of immigration             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Escaping the Iranian Revolution with her parents at age 6,  artist Sara Rahbar as an adult has produced an internationally recognized portfolio on themes often involving human and animal suffering. Yet Rahbar found herself wholly unprepared for the misery she met close to hand on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Judaism, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pollution, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Alex Felsinger, Andrew Zollman, Anne Barnard, Christian Zhang, Clarence Birdeye, Heather Greenhouse, Lore Croghan, Patty Lee, Tom Embury-Dennis

Ban “nut meat”! cries animal agribusiness

May 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal ag biz strategists fear they can’t beat “clean meat” WASHINGTON D.C.––Killing the first edition of the 2018 Farm Bill on May 18,  2018,  the U.S. House of Representatives kicked many a highly politicized can down the street for later consideration,  including the first legislative attempt to determine what sort of can and labeling will […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Alternatives, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Eric Schultze, Isha Datar, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, Nicholas Genovese, Steve Chapman, Tammy Baldwin, Todd Kuiken, Uma Valeti

Bad eggs Jack & Peter DeCoster ordered to prison after 2-year delay

June 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeal             SIOUX CITY,  Iowa––Two years after convicting egg barons Jack DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster for their roles in causing one of the worst salmonella outbreaks ever to hit the U.S. public,  senior U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa has signed […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Jack DeCoster, Judge Mark W. Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Peter DeCoster

Pooped on for profit: pigs, chickens, & people in North Carolina

May 11, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Governor stood up to pork barrel politics, but Republicans overrode his veto          RALEIGH,  TROUTMAN,  North Carolina––Rejecting pork barrel politics,  North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on May 5,  2017 vetoed North Carolina House Bill 467,  which would have limited the compensation that aggrieved homeowners can win in lawsuits against factory pig farms over stench and […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, USA, Welfare, Workers Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Christina Cooke, James Eli Shiffer, Merritt Clifton, Michael Grabell, Murphy Brown, Roy Cooper, Smithfield

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