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Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd

June 9, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence,  as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy,  meat,  and poultry consumption among younger […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Becky sandstedt, Gail Eisnitz, H. Glenn Esbenshade, Lynn Becker, Merritt Clifton, Nick Weaver, Stan Curtis, Temple Grandin, Trent Loos

Will birds sing or will they be silent? Our choice is their fate

May 18, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

By Karen Davis, PhD.,  president, United Poultry Concerns In “How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat,” The Economist reported on January 19, 2019 that “the total mass of farmed chickens exceeds that of all other birds on the planet combined.” This startling news comprises 1) The unimaginable number and size of chickens suffering […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry Tagged With: Rachel Carson

Federal shutdown helps disease race from gamecocks to egg barns

January 15, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Deadly exotic Newcastle outbreaks were all but ignored even before U.S. President Donald Trump furloughed most of the government personnel who could have responded             RIVERSIDE,  California–– Pleading for urgent attention to the recent spread of exotic Newcastle disease from southern California cockfighting flocks to commercial egg barns,  Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) moderator […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Donald Trump, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garland, Tim Lundeen

Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election

November 5, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12;  Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13             SACRAMENTO, California;  ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, USA, Uses of dogs, Welfare Tagged With: Brad Miller, Carey Thiel, Lynne Curry, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Tracy Reiman, Wayne Pacelle

Disease linked to cockfighting menaces California poultry industry

September 30, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Gamecocks carrying Newcastle disease to domestic flocks killed millions in 1971 and 2003             LOS ANGELES––The billion-dollar-a-year California poultry industry is betting the farm that state and federal authorities can get a two-year series of outbreaks of Newcastle disease under control before it becomes the biggest threat to profits in decades. An outbreak discovered in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Brad Miller, Eric Sakach, John Clifford, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Pam Marino, Steve Hindi

3.4 million “live inventory” – chickens & turkeys – drowned or starved in North Carolina storm 

September 24, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns with Afterword by ANIMALS 24-7 A caring person’s reaction to learning that millions of chickens and turkeys and pigs drowned in North Carolina this month is the gut-wrench of sorrow and pity for these helpless souls and outrage at the companies that didn’t see fit to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Karen Davis

“Clean meat” advocate Shapiro pushes product to stretch hot dogs

August 30, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Factory egg farmers meanwhile align behind HSUS-backed Proposition 12             SACRAMENTO,  California––Paul Shapiro,  the former Humane Society of the U.S. farmed animal campaigns manager and vegan advocate who resigned in January 2018 amid sexual harassment allegations,  is now pushing a product meant to stretch hot dogs,  burgers,  and meatballs. A “blend of wheat protein,  mushroom, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brad Miller, Elaine Watson, Glenn Hickman Barry Carpenter, Matt Ball, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Stephen Wells, Uma Valenti, Wayne Pacelle

Live animal markets in New York City: a cut-throat business at best

August 22, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Customs change with waves of immigration             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Escaping the Iranian Revolution with her parents at age 6,  artist Sara Rahbar as an adult has produced an internationally recognized portfolio on themes often involving human and animal suffering. Yet Rahbar found herself wholly unprepared for the misery she met close to hand on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Judaism, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pollution, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Alex Felsinger, Andrew Zollman, Anne Barnard, Christian Zhang, Clarence Birdeye, Heather Greenhouse, Lore Croghan, Patty Lee, Tom Embury-Dennis

Wayne Pacelle & Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom celebrate returns from extinction

July 24, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Sagas of alleged giant predators turned animal rights stars             WASHINGTON D.C.––Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,  a saga of supposedly vanished giant predators,  reinvented as animal rights celebrities,  debuted to bad reviews on June 22,  2018,  yet proved to be a box office magnet,  grossing $1.2 billion in its first month. Animal Wellness Action,  a political action […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Anna West, Annie Harvilicz, David Harvilicz, Josh Balk, Kitty Block, Marc Gunther, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Mike Markarian, Paul Shapiro, Wayne Pacelle

“Best science” won’t protect “clean meat” from foes, warns vet of biotech wars

July 23, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Fear of science & change will be weapons for animal industries trying to save their rump roasts             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––“Do not assume that doing the best science possible will insulate you from criticism,”  AquaBounty Technologies chief executive Ronald L. Stotish warned the New Harvest 2018 conference on “cellular agriculture,”  toward the end of two days […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Eggs, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, France, Fur & leather, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Sheep & goats, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bruce Friedrich, Craig Medred, Frankenfish, Johann Georg Faust, Lisa Murkowski, Mary Shelley, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Ronald L. Stotish

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