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Grand jury indicts alleged assailants of humane investigator Steve Hindi

February 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 12 Comments

Hindi beaten, drone destroyed, while trying to videotape site of suspected cockfight             IRONTON, Ohio––A Lawrence County,  Ohio grand jury on February 23,  2021 indicted suspects James V. “Bub” Newcomb II,  53,  of Waterloo,  Ohio,  and distant Newcomb neighbor Shannon Lee Clark,  35,  on multiple felony counts originating in a January 3,  2021 alleged assault […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Pacific rim, Philippines, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Becki Newcomb, James V. Newcomb II, Marty Bentley, Merritt Clifton, Shannon Lee Clark, Steve Hindi

Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

February 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Darren Stapleton, Karen Budkie, Maura Healey, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paul Shapiro, Robert Gibbens, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Alleged cockfighters who attacked Steve Hindi identified by ANIMALS 24-7 and tipster

January 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

New suspect named Suspects were videotaped in the act of committing an array of apparent state,  local,  and federal offenses.             WATERLOO, Ohio––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] at 9:35 a.m. west coast time on January 5,  2021 posted video of alleged cockfighters violently assaulting SHARK founder Steve Hindi two days earlier,  destroying SHARK equipment, […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, James V. “Bubba” Newcom II, Merritt Clifton, Newcomb Game Farm, Ohio Game Bird Association, Rebecca “Becki” Newcomb, Scott Aldridge, Shannon L. Clark, Steve Hindi

Investigators survive ambush attack at alleged cockfight in Ohio

January 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi is bloodied & drone lost in Wayne National Forest––a federal jurisdiction             WATERLOO, Ohio––Ambushed by at least four alleged assailants while sending a Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) drone aloft to videotape the crowd at what he told ANIMALS 24-7 was by far the biggest cockfight […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Sports, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Pinemountain Game Club, Steve Hindi, Waterloo Wonders, Wayne National Forest

Cockfighting in Kentucky: showdown on January 2, 2021

December 27, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Cockfighting promoters advertise in open defiance of the law;  SHARK demands enforcement BIG LAUREL, Kentucky––Will sundown on Saturday,  January 2,  2021 bring a new age in Kentucky cockfighting law enforcement,  or just another hangover from a long history of police indifference toward culturally entrenched crimes,  from moonshining to wife-beating and statutory rape? Whatever happens that […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry Tagged With: Dicy Roberts, James Taylor Adams, John Ramirez, Merritt Clifton, Ryan Catron, Steve Hindy, Vanessa Shakib

Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

November 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Paul Obis, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

Can killing an animal be compensated for by the creation of a new animal?

November 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, president, United Poultry Concerns (with afterword by Merritt & Beth Clifton) There is a line of thought in moral philosophy that says “yes” to killing an animal,  so long as the animal lived a pleasant life and the method used to kill the animal is humane – quick and painless. This […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Carol Adams, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Patty Mark, Peter Singer

Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.

October 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch findings come as COVID-19 hits mink farms & humans in Wisconsin & Utah             GREEN BAY, Wisconsin;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah––Which came first,  the COVID-19 coronavirus infecting humans,  or infecting mink? No one right now knows for sure whether mink might have been the incubator species through which COVID-19 passed from horseshoe bats in […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Disease, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tagged With: Darlene Konkle, Dean Taylor, Hope Kirwan, Jacob Klopfenstein, JoNel Aleccia, Merritt Clifton, Tyler Clifford

Kamala Harris: long record on animal issues, including pit bull attacks

October 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Prosecuted two dog attack fatalities, enforced pit bull sterilization ordinance, but favors adoptions of fighting dogs             SAN FRANCISCO––U.S. Senator Kamala Harris,  named vice presidential running mate to Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden on August 11,  2020,  brings to the election campaign both a strong record on animal protection and a mixed record in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Chickens, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Population control, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Aiden Cook, Diane Whipple, Kenneth Phillips, Kitty Block, Marjorie Knoller, Merritt Clifton, Nicholas Faibish, Robert Noel, Sara Amundson, Wayne Hsiung, Wayne Pacelle

Poland moves to ban fur farms & kosher/halal meat exports––why?

September 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Proposed law may be more about Catholic nationalist politics,  anti-Semitism,  and COVID-19 than about concern for animals             WARSAW, Poland––Is a new omnibus animal protection law recently proposed in Poland really all about animals,  driven in part by concern that mink farming may be a reservoir for the pandemic COVID-19 coronavirus? Or is the proposed […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Poultry, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Ben Cohen, Bogna Wiltowska, Herve Bercovier, Jarosław Kaczyński, Lech Kaczyński, Merritt Clifton, Slawomir Sierakowski, Witold Waszczykowski, Yardena Schwartz

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