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 […]
Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them
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 […]
Alleged cockfighters who attacked Steve Hindi identified by ANIMALS 24-7 and tipster
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, […]
Investigators survive ambush attack at alleged cockfight in Ohio
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 […]
Cockfighting in Kentucky: showdown on January 2, 2021
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 […]
Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky
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 […]
Can killing an animal be compensated for by the creation of a new animal?
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 […]
Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.
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 […]
Kamala Harris: long record on animal issues, including pit bull attacks
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 […]
Poland moves to ban fur farms & kosher/halal meat exports––why?
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 […]
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