Weak Tennessee cockfighting penalties boost the price of eggs MAYNARDVILLE, Tennessee––Ninety-eight alleged cockfighters were cited and approximately 250 gamecocks were seized by the Union County Sheriff’s Office near Maynardville, Tennessee on January 28, 2023. Yet none of the ninety-eight suspects went to jail. All were released after paying $50 […]
“Recognized” for trash pickup, Mississippi sheriff ignored cockfighters
Two cockfights cancelled in Kentucky, but two go on in Mississippi despite tips to Lee County Sheriff Department TUPELO, Mississippi––Driving south with the Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone squadron, through Kentucky en route to Mississippi on the first weekend of January 2023, SHARK founder Steve Hindi felt gratified to discover that two of […]
“Cage-free” fire that killed 400,000 hens is subject of $25 million lawsuit
Building barn that burned was praised as “victory” by then-Humane Society of U.S. brass BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska––A February 27, 2020 barn fire that killed 400,000 hens is now the subject of a $25 million lawsuit filed by the Rhode Island-based Factory Mutual Insurance Company against the barn builder, Henning Companies LLC of Johnston, Iowa. ANIMALS 24-7 […]
Eight life terms plus 121 years for murders linked to cockfighting
One suspected cockfighting family massacred another CINCINNATI, Ohio; MANILA, Philippines––Among the evidentiary photos and video obtained by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness during cockfights at Honest Abe’s pit in Pine Knot, McCreary County, Kentucky on December 17, 2022 was extensive documentation of the presence of small children, with their supposed parents, barely an arm’s […]
How SHARK stole Christmas from a bar full of alleged cockfighters
Who in Whoville called SHARK? Who called the cops? Who tipped off the cockfighters? Who wants to know? PINE KNOT, Kentucky––Whoville, the primary setting of the 1957 Dr. Suess fable How The Grinch Stole Christmas, huddled beneath the abandoned Star Studying Tower on Mount Crumpit, might almost have been modeled on the poverty-stricken former coal […]
Three members of chicken fighting Easterling family sent to the pen
Now they can play with their cocks in prison VERBENA, Alabama––The chickens came home to roost for seven convicted gamefowl cocks-of-the-walk from the Easterling family on October 13, 2022, November 30, 2022, and December 6, 2022. Six Easterlings and an inlaw who was among their employees were sentenced on those three days for multiple […]
More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
First condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21, 2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]
The “Thanksgiving” turkey: object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice
Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “Nothing so unites us as gathering with one mind to murder someone we hate, unless it is coming together to share in a meal.” – Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner, p. 33. The […]
UPDATE: Iowa belongs to Boss Hogg now. The stench? That’s money.
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 […]
“Cultural” defenses for charreada & cockfighting crumble
Two charreada promoters busted in Boone County, Illinois; Burmese cockfighting ring busted in Wells County, Indiana; Los Angeles close to banning bucking straps & prods GENEVA, Illinois––Suspecting persons involved in an October 23, 2022 charreada rodeo had been charged with cruelty, but previously unable to obtain the details, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on November […]
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