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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

“Rigor mortis is our biggest problem,” meat scientist tells cell culturing conference

July 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal agribiz is about dead meat;  cellular ag isn’t             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––Rigor mortis is the biggest technical problem the meat industry has,  John R. White Company meat scientist Benjy Mikel, Ph.D.,  of Birmingham,  Alabama,  emphasized on July 20,  2018 to the New Harvest 2018 conference on cellular agriculture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Slaughter, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Benjy Mikel, Josh Tetrick, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Paul Mozdziak, Peter Licari, Susan Mayne, Xun Wang

Are feminists right to resist comparison with the females of other species?

June 9, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD.,  president of United Poultry Concerns A woman employed on a chicken “breeder” farm in Maryland wrote a letter once to the local newspaper berating the defenders of chickens for trying to make her lose her job, threatening her ability to support herself and her daughter. For her,  “breeder” hens were “mean” birds who […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Carol J.Adams, Carolynn L. Smith, J. Baird Callicott, Jane Johnson, Jim Mason, Marc Bekoff

HSUS president Wayne Pacelle: more comes out

January 30, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

New allegations help to put anonymous communication into context             WASHINGTON D.C.––Rescuers of lame ducks in the Washington D.C. region are on high alert after Washington Post national labor issues reporter Danielle Paquette on January 29,  2018 revealed alleged details of workplace misconduct claims made by at least three women against Humane Society of the U.S. president […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Danielle Paquette, David Wills, Heidi Prescott, Holly Hazard, Merritt Clifton, Mike Markarian, Wayne Pacelle

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