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Chick sexing, cockfighting, drug abuse & dog attacks: the hidden link

July 29, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Help coming from France & Germany             NEWPORT, Tennessee;  IRONTON, Ohio;  PARIS, France––What do recent French and German edicts against crushing or gassing unwanted male chicks born at hen hatcheries have to do with cockfighting,  corruption,  drug addiction,  fatal dog attacks,  and the price of eggs in Appalachia? Not much,  you say? Take a closer […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Amber Miller, Egg-Tech Prize, Jonathan Moens, Julien Denormandie, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Tony Ahrens

Credibility,  GAP?  Global Animal Partnership 10 years later

July 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Farm Forward,  a former booster,  finds GAP approach bassackward––& is scarcely alone AUSTIN,  Texas––What a difference ten years of Global Animal Partnership have not made for factory-farmed animals! Indeed,  the biggest visible change associated with Global Animal Partnership [GAP] may be that Farm Forward has split with it. A faith-linked farmed animal advocacy organization,  Farm […]

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, Welfare Tagged With: Adele Douglass, Andrew deCoriolis, John Mackey, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

February 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Darren Stapleton, Karen Budkie, Maura Healey, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paul Shapiro, Robert Gibbens, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.

October 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch findings come as COVID-19 hits mink farms & humans in Wisconsin & Utah             GREEN BAY, Wisconsin;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah––Which came first,  the COVID-19 coronavirus infecting humans,  or infecting mink? No one right now knows for sure whether mink might have been the incubator species through which COVID-19 passed from horseshoe bats in […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Disease, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tagged With: Darlene Konkle, Dean Taylor, Hope Kirwan, Jacob Klopfenstein, JoNel Aleccia, Merritt Clifton, Tyler Clifford

Kamala Harris: long record on animal issues, including pit bull attacks

October 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Prosecuted two dog attack fatalities, enforced pit bull sterilization ordinance, but favors adoptions of fighting dogs             SAN FRANCISCO––U.S. Senator Kamala Harris,  named vice presidential running mate to Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden on August 11,  2020,  brings to the election campaign both a strong record on animal protection and a mixed record in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Chickens, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Population control, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Aiden Cook, Diane Whipple, Kenneth Phillips, Kitty Block, Marjorie Knoller, Merritt Clifton, Nicholas Faibish, Robert Noel, Sara Amundson, Wayne Hsiung, Wayne Pacelle

“No injuries” says Michael Foods of fire that killed 400,000 hens

March 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Cage-free complex has been much praised by animal advocates             BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska––If anyone imagined that going cage-free would substantively change the egg industry,  the headlines alone reporting a February 27,  2020 barn fire at a Michael Foods cage-free complex in Knox County,  Nebraska should explode that illusion. The Michael Foods fire killed as many as […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Egg Innovations, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Moark Hatcheries, Post Holdings, Randy Dockendorf, Tim Gragert

Science races law to end culling seven billion male chicks a year

February 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No more fingers up chicks’ anal vents          PARIS,  France;  BERLIN,  Germany––Racing to appear to be ahead of egg industry science,  French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume on January 28,  2020 announced that his administration would ban mass culling of male chicks and castration of piglets without anesthetic. “From the end of 2021,  nothing will be […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, France, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Poultry Tagged With: Chad Gregory, Didier Guillaume, Gretchen Vogel, Merritt Clifton, Oliver Morrison, Timothy Kurt

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

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