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More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis

November 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

First condemned,  then pardoned,  without a statement of rights  WASHINGTON D.C.­­––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21,  2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Joe Biden, John Kullberg, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

The “Thanksgiving” turkey:  object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice

November 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D.,  president, United Poultry Concerns   “Nothing so unites us as gathering with one mind to murder someone we hate, unless it is coming together to share in a meal.” – Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner, p. 33.   The […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Turkeys Tagged With: Eli Sagan, Karen Davis, Margaret Visser, Matt Novak

Bird flu means “cage free” & “free range” hens can run around indoors in the dark

May 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Cage free” & “free range” producers protect their “girls” by keeping them in jail Think that “cage-free” or “free-range” label on a box of eggs or meat package amounts to more than bull-feathers? Even if it is certified by any of the major farmed product certification organizations? Amid the current global H5N1 high pathogenic avian […]

Filed Under: Birds, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, France, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Poultry, Turkeys, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Certified Humane, H5N1, Merritt Clifton, Pete & Gerry's, Sybille De La Hamaide, Tom Polansek, Vital Farms

“Birds Aren’t Real” ––if only those in poultry barns were not

May 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The good news is,  vegan food technology means the birds on the menu need not be real MEMPHIS,  Tennessee––The avian advocacy world is still aflutter,  a week after CBS News 60 Minutes reporter Sharyn Alfonsi extensively exposed the “Birds Aren’t Real” hoax conspiracy theory orchestrated from Memphis by 24-year-old University of Arkansas dropout and former […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cameron Kasky, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Peter McIndoe, Respect for Chickens, Sharyn Alfonsi, United Poultry Concerns

Farmed animal product certifications “lack integrity,” investigators find

April 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Food In-Depth & Farm Forward find antibiotics in “antibiotics-free” meat. Farm Forward cites much else wrong with the American Humane Certified,  One Health Certified,  & Global Animal Partnership labels             SAN MATEO,  California;  PORTLAND,  Oregon––The food testing company Food In-Depth and Farm Forward,  a self-described nonprofit “team of strategists,  campaigners, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: American Humane Certified, Farm Forward, Food In-Depth, Global Animal Partnership, Merritt Clifton, One Health Certified

USDA proposes to cover birds under the Animal Welfare Act––sort of

April 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Disease outbreaks afflicting poultry producers lend regulatory urgency to protecting birds––some birds,  anyhow––that 50 years of activism did not WASHINGTON D.C.––The worst outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza on record,  ravaging European flocks both wild and domestic since 2020,  now killing birds by the million in poultry barns,  especially in the upper Midwest,  may soon help […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Turkeys, Uncategorized, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: H5N1, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifto, pinioning, Sara Amundson, USDA-APHIS

Moral injury in animal advocates and nonhuman animals

October 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

and the commonality of being reduced to “lesser beings” by Karen Davis, PhD,  president, United Poultry Concerns “Some people seemed unfazed when witnessing cruelty, but I could feel the pain of every living organism through my bones, as if it were my own.” ––Elin Gundersen, “Understanding the Power of Compassion,”.  VEGAN VOICES: Essays by Inspiring […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Chickens, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live transport, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Science, Slaughter, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Anthony Feinstein, Clementien Koenegras, Janine di Giovanni

Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos

October 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Poultry, Predators, Religion & philosophy, South America, Sports, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Charles J. Siragusa, Farm Sanctuary, Gonacon, Jacob Frost, Luis Domingo Gómez Maldonado, Meredith Turner-Smith, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar, PZP

Plainville Farms turkeys kicked, beaten: Credibility, GAP? redux

August 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Daniel Paden, Global Animal Partnership, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Moira Colley, PETA, Plainville Farms, Tracy Reiman

Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

November 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Paul Obis, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

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