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Why we didn’t send you a direct mail appeal to arrive on Black Friday

November 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: You may have noticed the absence of anything from ANIMALS 24-7 among the ever-increasing blizzard of direct mail appeals from charities of every kind that are timed each year to land in your box on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Very likely,  most of those appeals urged you to donate generously on […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

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

Pit bulls: An active 40+ year shelter director speaks out too, by Debra Boswell

November 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“Thank you so much, Deborah Turner!” Thank you so much,  Deborah Turner,  for your truthful and informative ANIMALS 24-7 guest column Pit bulls:  A retired humane professional speaks out at last.   I have been the director at a large open admission shelter in the south,  the Mississippi Animal Rescue League in Jackson,  Mississippi,  since […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Other dog topics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Deborah Turner, Debra Boswell

Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last, by Deborah Turner

November 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“All dogs should be recognized as individuals,”  but what of the victims? Last week (and practically every week) a prominent animal welfare group talked on Facebook about how nearly all shelters now agree that all dogs should be recognized as individuals and no breed is inherently aggressive. Really?  Humans have been breeding dogs for specific […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Deborah Turner

Someone said ANIMALS 24-7 should not exist. Help us prove him wrong!

September 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: Beth & I listen to you when you ask us to investigate and report about urgent animal issues, usually issues that no one else is covering in comparable depth. We stay up very late, very often, to make sure we live up to your expectations in a timely manner. Every now […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

Do you feel you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over?

July 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: Do you ever feel as if you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over? Thirty years ago we celebrated a global ban on commercial whaling, a ban on international sales of elephant ivory and rhino horn, and a 10-year suspension of the Atlantic Canada seal hunt. U.S. retail […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

Will birds sing or will they be silent? Our choice is their fate

May 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

By Karen Davis, PhD.,  president, United Poultry Concerns In “How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat,” The Economist reported on January 19, 2019 that “the total mass of farmed chickens exceeds that of all other birds on the planet combined.” This startling news comprises 1) The unimaginable number and size of chickens suffering […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry Tagged With: Rachel Carson

Mercury Toxicity as a Cause for Stranded Marine Mammals is not a Mystery

April 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

by Bill McGraw (Ph.D. in aquaculture, Boquete, Panama;  www.newaquatechpanama.com) Approximately 37% of marine mammal species are in danger of extinction,  according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.  Among the most often reported concerns regarding deaths of whales and dolphins are the phenomena of these animals beaching or “stranding” themselves en masse. Episodic […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Isles, Japan, Marine life, Mediterranean, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Science, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill McGraw

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