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98 alleged cockfighters busted; got only $50 fines & kept birds

February 3, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Humane Farming Association, Jim Keen, Maynardville, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Union County, Wayne Pacelle

“Recognized” for trash pickup,  Mississippi sheriff ignored cockfighters

January 13, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Buddy Baughman, DL Parker, Merritt Clifton, Sheriff Jim H. Johnson, Steve Hindi, Steve Hollard, Tom Williams, Tupelo

“Cage-free” fire that killed 400,000 hens is subject of $25 million lawsuit

January 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Factory Mutual Insurance, Margie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Waldbaum

Eight life terms plus 121 years for murders linked to cockfighting

December 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Angela Wagner, Christopher Rhoden, Edward “Jake” Wagner, Frankie Rhoden, George “Billy” Wagner III, George Washington Wagner IV, Hannah Mae Rhoden Gilley, Merritt Clifton, Rita Jo Newcomb, Steve Hindi

How SHARK stole Christmas from a bar full of alleged cockfighters

December 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Suess, Honest Abe's, Merritt Clifton, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Steve Hindi

Three members of chicken fighting Easterling family sent to the pen

December 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Amber Nicole Easterling, Brent Easterling, George William “Billy” Easterling, Jim Easterling, Kassi Brook Easterling, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Glyn “Junior” Williams, William Tyler Easterling

More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis

November 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Joe Biden, John Kullberg, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

UPDATE: Iowa belongs to Boss Hogg now. The stench? That’s money.

November 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Corey AGR Inc., Direct Action Everywhere, Elana Laber, Iowa Select Farms, Marina Bolotnikova, Matt Johnson, Merritt Clifton, Rembrandt Foods

“Cultural” defenses for charreada & cockfighting crumble

November 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Rodeo, Spectacles, Welfare Tagged With: Aung Myint, Jackie Cota, Jose Luis P. Ramirez, Kan Lay, Kitty Block, Ma Nyun Sun, Merritt Clifton, Mexican Federation of Charreria, Steve Hindi, Suzanne Rustaff

Tyson executive bust upstages three dog attack fatalities in a week

November 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Mauling death of child just a few miles away gets less coverage than John Tyson’s pants             SPRINGDALE,  Arkansas––The November 6,  2022 arrest of Tyson Foods chief financial officer John Tyson,  32,  might be said to have upstaged the Tyson Foods slaughter of 155,000 cows, 461,000 pigs,  and 45 million chickens during the next week,  a […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Donald Wayne Abner, Dwight C. Jones, Evangeline Brooks, John Tyson, Melissa D. Wolke, Merritt Clifton

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