Decisions may mean better days for animals, but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.; WASHINGTON D.C.; MADISON, Wisconsin; CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry, cockfighting in Puerto Rico, wolf hunting in Wisconsin, and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]
Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming
Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21, 1947––October 13, 2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]
Kaporos chicken rescue brings New York City a smile on 9-11-2021
Rare good news on a grim anniversary NEW YORK, N.Y.––Twenty years after al Qaida terrorists on September 11, 2001 hijacked four airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, killing 2,763 people, tens of thousands of New Yorkers awakened to a good news story. About […]
Food & Justice, veg history to be proud of, & chickenshit in Kentucky
What Brenda Sanders & Chinny Krishna don’t have in common with Sheriff John Root BALTIMORE, Maryland; CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India; London, Kentucky––Some people, like Food & Justice web video host Brenda Sanders of Baltimore, dedicate their lives to breaking down stereotypes and expanding the horizons of everyone around them. Some people, like longtime Blue Cross […]
Cockfights: Laurel County, KY Sheriff John Root avows he won’t do his job
Sheriff Root’s bizarre 56th birthday Facebook posting suggests he is ready for retirement LONDON, Kentucky––In what parallel universe does a county sheriff run for re-election by boasting of non-enforcement of state laws, pledging to continue not enforcing them, slandering critics with demonstrably false allegations from criminal suspects facing trial, endorsing abuse of the injured […]
Plainville Farms turkeys kicked, beaten: Credibility, GAP? redux
Global Animal Partnership-certified farm supplies turkeys to Whole Foods Markets & Publix NEW OXFORD, Pennsylvania––The Pennsylvania State Police have informed media that staff are “currently” reviewing video of alleged extensive abuse of turkeys at Plainville Farms facilities near New Oxford, Pennsylvania. Plainville Farms, advertising that it meets Global Animal Partnership humane standards, supplies turkeys to […]
Why Disney & Frontier Days are rich & alleged cockfighters are not
Accused cockfighters could take lessons from cowpokes & Mickey Mouse in how to cut & spin losses BURBANK, California; CHEYENNE, Wyoming; IRONTON, Ohio––Suspected cockfighting promoters James and Beckie Newcomb are unlikely to ever be accused of possessing the business smarts behind either the 125-year-old Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo and concert series, or Walt Disney […]
Chick sexing, cockfighting, drug abuse & dog attacks: the hidden link
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 […]
Credibility, GAP? Global Animal Partnership 10 years later
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 […]
Rare busts hit cockfighting, dog torture, & other Appalachian pastimes
Convictions remain scarce as hen’s teeth LONDON, Kentucky––Ten people including a Laurel County bailiff were reportedly cited by Kentucky State Police for various alleged offenses on July 10, 2021 while attending a cockfight at Bald Rock, Kentucky, according to the Chicago-based animal advocacy organization Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK]. SHARK drones and hidden cameras […]
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