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Kaporos: chicken soup for the soulless?

September 27, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

UPDATE: Opponents of Kaporos will on September 28,  2017 hold a candlelight vigil in Borough Park,  Brooklyn,  co-hosted by the Animal Cruelty Exposure Fund,  Their Turn,  NYCLASS,  Long Island Orchestrating for Nature,  New York Farm Animal Save,  New York Animal Defenders,  and the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos,  a project of United Poultry Concerns. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Judaism, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Jay Michaelson, Judge Debra James, Kaporos, Karen Davis, Michael Pollan, Naomi Goldberg, Nora Constance Marino, Rabbi Shea Hecht, Shlomo Goren, United Poultry Concerns, Yonassan Gershom

Monsoon floods threaten animals below the Himalayas

July 20, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Devastation along one of the world’s longest yet most remote rivers  GUWAHATI,  ASSAM,  INDIA––Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains pelting the southeast side of the Himalayas,  believed to be symptomatic of global warming,  have for the fifth year in a row triggered deadly landslides and caused the Brahmaputra river and tributaries to overflow their banks. More than […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Wildlife

Hampton Creek founder Tetrick pledges his “clean meat” will be vegan

July 8, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Cloned product will not be grown in serum culture, Tetrick says          SAN FRANCISCO––Hampton Creek Foods founder Josh Tetrick,  amid a mysterious destocking of all 20 Hampton Creek products by Target Corporation,  the largest Hampton Creek customer,  took a meme of unknown origin attacking cell-cultured meat seriously enough to call at 5:02 p.m. on Friday,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Science, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Donald Watson, EatJust, Emily Moran Barwick, Hampton Creek, Josh Tetrick, Merritt Clifton

Bad eggs Jack & Peter DeCoster ordered to prison after 2-year delay

June 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeal             SIOUX CITY,  Iowa––Two years after convicting egg barons Jack DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster for their roles in causing one of the worst salmonella outbreaks ever to hit the U.S. public,  senior U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa has signed […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Jack DeCoster, Judge Mark W. Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Peter DeCoster

Would “healthier” chickens harm the environment?

January 30, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

By Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Chicken “Welfare” vs. Environmental Welfare  Would raising chickens more slowly – keeping them alive for seven or eight weeks, say, instead of five or six weeks – be a welfare improvement that would inflict more harm on the environment than the industry already causes? The industry […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Chris Hedges, Clare Druce, John Webster, Karen Davis, National Chicken Council, Richard Oppenlander

First conviction of animal sacrifice practitioner in 11 years

August 23, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

But light sentence for perp          LEESBURG,  Virginia––Loudoun County,  Virginia general district Judge Deborah C. Welsh on August 3,  2016 convicted Santeria priestess Mercy Carrion,  43,  on three counts of cruelty to animals,  but suspended her sentence on condition that she take a course in how to properly sacrifice animals from Gro Mambo Danthoula Novanyon […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animism & Santeria, Caribbean, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Nigeria, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Sub-Saharan, The Americas, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Anna Charlton, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Gary Francione, Gilbert Stevenson, Jose Merced, Mercy Carrion, Merritt Clifton

Do farmed animal standards mix with gin?

July 15, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Agribiz group VP becomes VP for American Humane Association WASHINGTON D.C.––What does it signify that American Humane Association chief marketing officer and vice president of communications Jack Hubbard came to that position in May 2016 after nine years as vice president of the aggressively anti-animal and habitat advocacy public relations firm Richard Berman & Company, […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Adele Douglass, Jack Hubbard, Merritt Clifton, Richard Berman, Robin Ganzert, Wayne Pacelle

Farmed animals & money talks

July 4, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

U.K. farmed animal welfare laws older & weaker than many voters believe Part III of a five-part series.  See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?,  Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan.”,  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals and Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.) While residents of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Turkeys, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: CIWF, Helmut Dungler, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Peter Stevenson, RSPCA

Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?

July 1, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part I of a five-part series.   See also Part II: Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan” and Part III: Farmed animals & money talks.   Part IV:  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals. Part V:  Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.          LONDON,  U.K.––Will the June 23,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Animal Concern, David Bowles, Helmut Dungler, Janice Cox, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Peter Davies, RSPCA, Shirley McGreal, Vier Pfoten, Wim de Kok

Perdue Farms agrees to animal welfare concessions after 30-year battle

June 30, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Henry Spira posthumously wins long fight with the late Frank Perdue after Perdue son throws in the towel          SALISBURY,  Maryland––Perdue Farms,  a $6 billion-a-year pioneer of factory-style chicken farming and now the fourth largest chicken producer in the U.S.,  on June 27,  2016 announced a four-point program to improve chicken welfare.  The Perdue announcement,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Arthur Perdue, Frank Perdue, Henry Spira, Jim Perdue, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Niman Ranch, Wayne Pacelle

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