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Cockfighters cut deals & hack reporting doesn’t cut it in Kentucky

May 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald Leader is unapologetic about crediting wrong two groups with roles in busts;  does not name the right two             LEXINGTON, Kentucky––Cockfighting cases usually result in plea-bargained sentences. Few people,  if any,  might therefore have been surprised when alleged cockfighters Rickie D. Johnson,  55,  and Hiram B. Creech Jr.,  47,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Bald Rock, Bill Estep, Hiram B. Creech, Jacklyn R. Johnson, Lexington Herald Leader, Merritt Clifton, Monte Irby, Rickie D. Johnson, Wayne Pacelle

“Birds Aren’t Real” ––if only those in poultry barns were not

May 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

The good news is,  vegan food technology means the birds on the menu need not be real MEMPHIS,  Tennessee––The avian advocacy world is still aflutter,  a week after CBS News 60 Minutes reporter Sharyn Alfonsi extensively exposed the “Birds Aren’t Real” hoax conspiracy theory orchestrated from Memphis by 24-year-old University of Arkansas dropout and former […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cameron Kasky, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Peter McIndoe, Respect for Chickens, Sharyn Alfonsi, United Poultry Concerns

Birds, bees, broiling heat, & adding insect parts to food on purpose

May 1, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The bees-at-the-airport disaster story went global––but mass media missed the biggest issues             KENAI,  Alaska––More than 300 Alaskan beekeepers,  most of them fruit and vegetable farmers,  without native honey bees to pollinate introduced food crops,  on April 23,  2022 expected to receive two million bees from Sacramento to help start their short growing season. Soldotna […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Bees, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Delta Air Lines, Edward Morgan, Matilde Nuñez del Prado Alanes, Merritt Clifton, Sabine Poux, Sarah McElrea

Bans on pit bulls & backyard chickens survive repeal votes in Winnipeg

April 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull ban would have been replaced by “one free bite” WINNIPEG, Manitoba––Rejecting both of the leading pet-keeping fads of the past two decades,  both often covers for animal fighting and organized crime,  the Winnipeg city council by identical 9-7 votes on April 28,  2022 upheld reputedly the oldest pit bull ban in Canada and […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Canada, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, The Americas Tagged With: Brian Bowman, Brittany Semeniuk, Malathi Raghavan, Merritt Clifton, Sam Samson, Shawn Nason, Winnipeg Humane Society

Shannon Clark cops plea for attack on cockfight investigator Steve Hindi

April 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Four years on probation & must have head examined             IRONTON, Ohio––Pleading guilty to aggravated assault against Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi, Shannon Lee Clark,  37,  of Ironton,  Ohio,  was on April 18,  2022 sentenced to serve four years on probation,  perform 200 hours of community service,  pay court costs,  and “complete […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry Tagged With: Adam Fahnestock, James V. “Bub” Newcomb, Judge Andrew Ballard, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness

Will bird flu cut the U.S. appetite for chicken, eggs, ducks, & turkey?

April 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Public notices eagle deaths & higher prices             CHICAGO,  Illinois––Soaring egg prices,  bald eagles dropping from the skies in at least 14 states,  and 200 dead birds found at Baker Lake in the Forest Preserves of Cook County,  forty miles northwest of Chicago,  in mid-April 2022 began to bring the mainstream mass media spotlight to […]

Filed Under: Birds, Canada, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Big Red Farms, Brome Lake Ducks, Cook County Forest Preserves, Grady Ferguson, Gro Intelligence, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Nick Hytrek

Farmed animal product certifications “lack integrity,” investigators find

April 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Food In-Depth & Farm Forward find antibiotics in “antibiotics-free” meat. Farm Forward cites much else wrong with the American Humane Certified,  One Health Certified,  & Global Animal Partnership labels             SAN MATEO,  California;  PORTLAND,  Oregon––The food testing company Food In-Depth and Farm Forward,  a self-described nonprofit “team of strategists,  campaigners, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: American Humane Certified, Farm Forward, Food In-Depth, Global Animal Partnership, Merritt Clifton, One Health Certified

USDA proposes to cover birds under the Animal Welfare Act––sort of

April 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Disease outbreaks afflicting poultry producers lend regulatory urgency to protecting birds––some birds,  anyhow––that 50 years of activism did not WASHINGTON D.C.––The worst outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza on record,  ravaging European flocks both wild and domestic since 2020,  now killing birds by the million in poultry barns,  especially in the upper Midwest,  may soon help […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Turkeys, Uncategorized, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: H5N1, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifto, pinioning, Sara Amundson, USDA-APHIS

20 murdered at U.S.-owned Mexican cockpit

March 31, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Three U.S. citizens identified among the dead ZINAPECUARO,  Mexico––Three U.S. citizens died and a fourth was critically wounded at an illegal cockfight on March 27,  2022 in Zinapecuaro, Michoacan state,  Mexico,  about halfway between Mexico City and Jalisco. The four U.S. citizens were among the 20 dead and six reported survivors in killings that Mexican […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Poultry, The Americas Tagged With: Arleth Silva, Jose Abiel Alvarez Sr., Melissa Silva, Merritt Clifton, Michoacan, Salvador Alvarez, Zinapecuaro

H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge

March 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide             AMES,  Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds,  wild or domestic,  to beware of the first outbreak of High […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, Chickens, China, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: cockfighters, foie gras, Ian Brown, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, United Poultry Concerns

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