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 […]
Alleged cockfighter indicted for bribery in Kentucky, others named
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 […]
Hearts out of place: transplants, pigs, chickens, “victories” & McDonald’s
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 […]
And right on cue, here come the parasites, by Steve Hindi
“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 […]
Feds indict 13 Kentucky cockfighters flushed out by SHARK; more busts likely
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 […]
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