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, […]
“Birds Aren’t Real” ––if only those in poultry barns were not
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 […]
Birds, bees, broiling heat, & adding insect parts to food on purpose
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 […]
Bans on pit bulls & backyard chickens survive repeal votes in Winnipeg
Pit bull ban would have been replaced by “one free bite” WINNIPEG, Manitoba––Rejecting both of the leading pet-keeping fads of the past two decades, both often covers for animal fighting and organized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 […]
Shannon Clark cops plea for attack on cockfight investigator Steve Hindi
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 […]
Will bird flu cut the U.S. appetite for chicken, eggs, ducks, & turkey?
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 […]
Farmed animal product certifications “lack integrity,” investigators find
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, […]
USDA proposes to cover birds under the Animal Welfare Act––sort of
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 […]
20 murdered at U.S.-owned Mexican cockpit
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 […]
H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge
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 […]
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