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Poland moves to ban fur farms & kosher/halal meat exports––why?

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Proposed law may be more about Catholic nationalist politics,  anti-Semitism,  and COVID-19 than about concern for animals             WARSAW, Poland––Is a new omnibus animal protection law recently proposed in Poland really all about animals,  driven in part by concern that mink farming may be a reservoir for the pandemic COVID-19 coronavirus? Or is the proposed […]

Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”

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BL Cozad garbled Bible & U.S. Constitution             MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––If cockfighting advocate BL “Billy” Cozad had ever actually read the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21,  instead of blindly denouncing it,  he might have found that certain passages in it better support his arguments than anything he misquoted and misrepresented from the Bible and […]

A challenge to Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, & “A chicken in every pot”

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70 Members of Congress & United Poultry Concerns ask VP candidates to address global warming & meat             SALT LAKE CITY, Utah––Will the October 7,  2020 debate between Republican vice president Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential challenger Kamala Harris bring the first direct challenge in 92 years to the political promise of putting a […]

Hurricane Laura: mouse takes the spotlight while 10 dogs die on truck

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Marine life are major wildlife casualties             COOKEVILLE,  Tennessee––Pipsqueak the three-legged mouse,  a cow dead for perhaps 160 years,  ten dogs succumbing to heat exhaustion aboard a rescue transport,  and acres of decomposing marine life scattered across beaches more than 300 miles from where Hurricane Laura made landfall at Cameron Parish,  Louisiana,  appear to be […]

Wildfires, COVID-19, & cockfighting besiege Monterey County

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Cockfighting may be accelerant behind COVID-19 explosion MONTEREY, California––The 50,000-acre River wildfire,  destroying at least 13 homes,  and the 7,000-acre Carmel wildfire,  razing 50 homes,  reportedly forced the evacuation of more than 500 animals to the SPCA for Monterey County shelter during the fourth week of August 2020––and then forced the animals’ re-evacuation to the […]

Pro-cockfighting rally draws fewer participants than local cockfights

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Apathy thwarts “Call To Action BBQ” VERBENA, Alabama––One inept attempt to rally nationwide support for cockfighting,  convened on short notice amid a global pandemic,  scarcely means the multi-million-dollar cockfighting industry is unraveling,  protected as it is by “good old boys” in legislatures and law enforcement. But that fewer people rallied in defense of cockfighting on […]

Birds in the mail: U.S. Postal Service changes kill thousands

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Trump appointee DeJoy puts animal advocates, factory farmers, cockfighters, & captive bird-shooters all on the same side of the fence WASHINGTON D.C.––Changes to U.S. Postal Service policy and practice implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy,  appointed in May 2020 by U.S. President Donald Trump,  on August 21,  2020 improbably aligned animal advocates,  factory-style poultry farmers,  […]

Slaughter workers, animals, & advocates: can there be justice for all?

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Not all social justice interests are compatible by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “It really does something to your mind when you stand there in all that blood, killing so many times, over and over again.” – Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse employee  If I see or hear the word “meatpacking” one […]

Amazon et al may sell foie gras to Californians despite state ban, rules judge

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2004 law prohibits sale but not purchase of product from tortured waterfowl LOS ANGELES, California––Foie gras,  an oily spread made from the diseased livers of force-fed ducks and geese,  may be legally purchased by Californians,  but a 2004 state law prohibits selling it within California,  Los Angeles U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled on […]

Kentucky state cops let 33 cars leave alleged cockfight before investigating

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Showing Animals Respect & Kindness caught the “great escape” on video             PINE KNOT, Kentucky––Duane Pohlman, chief investigative reporter for the Cincinnati television station WKRC,  aired quite a scoop about cockfighting continuing in Kentucky on Monday,  July 6, 2020,  using undercover video collected by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) with Humane Farming Association Funding. […]