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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

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

August 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Ducks & geese, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Chellie Pingree, Karen Davis, Louis DeJoy, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Protecting purity from pollution, or protecting pollution from purity?

November 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

The Golden Age, Garden of Eden, and Thanksgiving Myth of Origin by Karen Davis Ph.D.,  president, United Poultry Concerns (See also Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentience and The “Thanksgiving” turkey:  object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice.) “The question before us is, which images of the universe, of power, of animals, of ourselves, will we represent […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Carol J.Adams, Elizabeth Peck, James W. Loewen, Karen Davis, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

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

November 23, 2019 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

Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentience

November 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Plus Social Dancing and Driving Off Predators by Karen Davis, PhD,  president, United Poultry Concerns Turkeys express social sympathy An emotional behavior in turkeys that has been said to “defy logic” is “the great wake” they will hold over a fallen companion.  In one episode,  cited by A.W. Schorger in The Wild Turkey: Its History […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Turkeys Tagged With: A.W. Schorger, Everette M. Prosise, Joe Hutto, John James Audubon, Karen Davis

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

No apology from Olbermann for selling turkey sandwiches

March 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Apologized for asking Twitter followers to make turkey hunter’s life “a living hell,”  but made point of pitching pit bulls             KILN, Mississippi––Sports announcer,  broadcast journalist,  and political commentator Keith Olbermann,  60,  on March 27,  2019 apologized “unreservedly” for calling upon his Twitter followers two days earlier to make the rest of Hunter Waltman’s life […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Birds, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Eriksen, Brian Broom, Hunter Waltman, Keith Olbermann, Merritt Clifton, Sam Hall

The Thanksgiving Turkey as Ritual Scapegoat

November 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

in the Carnivalesque Tradition by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Human radical abuse of “food” animals cannot be explained by economic efficiency alone. It is also an outgrowth of attitudes humans have had toward nonhuman animals through the ages,  rooted in our resentment at being animals,  which we project onto them. In his […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin

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

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

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