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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

Alleged cockfighter indicted for bribery in Kentucky, others named

March 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

31 missing cockfighters becomes a presidential campaign issue in the Philippines LEXINGTON,  Kentucky;  MANILA, Philippines––The U.S. Department of Justice on March 2,  2022 disclosed the names of four more alleged cockfighters against whom sealed federal indictments were issued on February 24,  2022 in London,  Kentucky. No further information,  however,  has been forthcoming about who was […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Philippines, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Carlton S. Shier IV, Cruz Alejandro Mercado-Vazquez, Jerrard McVey, Jodi Cohen, Linda McVey, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Panfilo Lacson, Rodrigo Duterte, Steve Hindi, Vicente Sotto III, Walter H. Mitchell

Hearts out of place: transplants, pigs, chickens, “victories” & McDonald’s

March 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

If “victories” for farmed animals meant beans,  that would be a substantial improvement BALTIMORE,  Maryland;  WASHINGTON D.C.––David Bennett,  57,  who on January 7,  2022 became the first human to receive a heart transplanted from a genetically-modified pig,  died on March 8,  2022 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine hospital. “The biggest barrier to […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: CIWF, David Bennett, Henry Spira, HSUS, Humane Farming Association, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Mickey Dee, Ronald McDonald, Wayne Pacelle

And right on cue, here come the parasites, by Steve Hindi

March 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Parasites will be parasites.” Everyone at Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] and the Humane Farming Association knew it would happen,  because parasites will be parasites. It wasn’t a matter of “if,”  it was just a matter of “when,”  and “when” did not take long.  But even though it was anticipated,  when it happened it […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Animal Wellness Action, ASPCA, cockfighting, HSUS, PETA, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Wayne Pacelle, Whitesburg

Feds indict 13 Kentucky cockfighters flushed out by SHARK; more busts likely

March 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Indictments do not mention February 25,  2022 FBI raid in Whitesburg,  Kentucky             LONDON, Kentucky––Eight alleged cockfight organizers and five alleged cockfighters were indicted for federal felonies in grand jury indictments issued on February 24,  2022 in London,  Kentucky,  unsealed on March 1,  2022. Citing more than a dozen alleged specific dates of cockfights held […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Beachel Collett, Bradley Cye Rose, Dallas M. Cope, Harold “Fuzzy” Hale, Hiram Creech Jr., Jacklyn R. Johnson, John Root, Joshua Westerfield, Justin Smith, Lester Collett, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Orville D. Asher, Rickie D. Johnson, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Timothy Sizemore

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