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Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?

March 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify             HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories,  the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,  and potential sanctuary caretakers to decide what will become of them. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Chimps & other primates, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Laws, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Science, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Schecter, Born Free USA, Charles River Laboratories, Edwin Wiek, Merritt Clifton, PETA, Primarily Primates

Charles River Labs sending bootlegged macaques back to traffickers

March 16, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals & Born Free USA sanctuary offer snubbed HOUSTON, Texas––If 1,000 juvenile long-tailed macaques held in Houston at this writing by Charles River Laboratories had the rights of humans,  they would either be returned to their homes in the wild in Cambodia or be granted asylum as refugees. If […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Japan, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Pacific rim, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Born Free USA, Kathy Guillermo, Lou Griffin, Merritt Clifton, PETA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Crocodile tears in the monkey labs as Charles River suspends imports

March 7, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Charles River is latest monkey supplier named in wild-caught macaque smuggling case BETHESDA, Maryland––Laboratory monkey users and investors in the laboratory monkey business are shedding crocodile tears to mass media about an alleged monkey shortage jeopardizing public health by delaying approval of new drugs and medical procedures. No less an authority than the National Institutes […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia, Cambodia, Cats, Chimps & other primates, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws, Mice & rats, Poaching & trafficking, Research & testing, Science, Southeast Asia, U.S., USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles River Laboratories, Cruelty Free International, Inotiv, Merritt Clifton, Monica Engebretson, National Institutes of Health, PubMed

Why no buzz about Charles Henry Turner, even in Black History Month?

February 15, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Turner had no laboratory & no lab animals for most of his career,  but proved Charles Darwin was right about animal sentience CINCINNATI,  Ohio––Why is there still no buzz about pioneering animal intelligence researcher Charles Henry Turner’s discoveries,  even in Black History Month? 100 years after Turner died,  on Valentine’s Day 1923,  at only 56 […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Insects, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Darwin T. Turner, E.O. Wilson, Galpayage Dona, Hiruni Samadi, Lars Chittka, Thomas Lovejoy

“Stop torturing baby monkeys!” Harvard Animal Law Clinic tells Harvard Med

February 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Maternal deprivation experiments by neurobiologist Margaret S. Livingstone evoke nightmares of Harry Harlow             CAMBRIDGE,  Massachusetts––Multi-millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health funding allocated to Harvard Medical School maternal deprivation researcher Margaret S. Livingstone were on February 8,  2023 challenged by more than 380 scientists,  medical doctors,  and other academic researchers rallied behind Harvard […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cat Hobaiter, Harry Harlow, Margaret Livingstone, Merritt Clifton, New England Primate Research Center, Richard Wrangham, Sarah Pickering, Stephen Suomi

Roberta Kalechofsky, 90, interpreted Judaism in animal rights context

January 29, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Took up animal advocacy in mid-career as author & publisher Roberta Kalechofsky,  90,  author,  animal advocate,  educator,  historian,  and publisher,   died on April 5,  2022 in hospice care in Chelsea,  Massachusetts,  near her longtime home in Marblehead,  Massachusetts. ANIMALS 24-7,  unfortunately,  only learned of her death on January 26,  2023,  necessitating this late obituary. Valued […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Judaism, Lab animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Recipes, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Charles Patterson, Jews for Animal Rights, Merritt Clifton, Micah Press, Richard H. Schwartz, Robert Kalechofsky

Conservatism, the religious right, & the evolution of anti-vivisectionism

January 17, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

The right & left hands of anti-vivisectionism have rarely known what each other were doing Included in the recent ANIMALS 24-7 article What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was a mention that during King’s lifetime,  1929-1968,  “Anti-vivisection activism had become co-opted by the radical right and was seemingly intertwined […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Caroline Earle White, Charles Darwin, Christine Stevens, Cleveland Amory, Louis Pasteur, Rene Descartes

Monkey-laundering? Busts of lab suppliers follow 15 years of warnings

November 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Wild-caught macaques may have flooded into U.S. labs for more than 15 years before the feds moved to stop the traffic HONG KONG–Did a small amount of monkey-eating in southern China cover for the development of large amount of monkey trafficking from the wild to U.S. labs? ANIMALS 24-7 and the International Primate Protection League […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Chimps & other primates, China, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Food & agriculture, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Laws, Laws & politics, Legislation, Malaysia, Morocco, North Africa, Poaching & trafficking, Science, Science, Southeast Asia, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: International Primate Protection League, Masphal Kry, Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal, Stephen Chen, Vanny

Lab animal supplier Inotiv allegedly sold smuggled monkeys

November 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Company hits trifecta:  alleged monkey-trafficking,  mass neglect of beagles,  & accused of stock fraud MIAMI,  Florida––It isn’t easy to get caught in the middle of the biggest monkey-smuggling case associated with biomedical research,  the biggest beagle neglect case in the history of vivisection,  and the alleged biggest pump-and-dump stock-selling scandal to hit biomedical research investors,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cambodia, Chimps & other primates, China, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Regulation, Science, Science, Southeast Asia, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: David Grimm, Envigo, Masphal Kry, Merritt Clifton, Omaliss Keo, Shirley McGreal, Steve Hindi

Bill Jordan, 97, wildlife vet, author, & founder of animal aid charities

October 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Jordan had a key role in forming at least nine organizations in 48 years,  most of which still exist William Johnston Jordan,  97,  known to the world as Bill Jordan,  wildlife veterinarian,  author,  and founder or cofounder of a constellation of wildlife care projects spanning the globe,  died on July 5,  2022,  at the SSM Health/St. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Canada, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Latin America, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, South Africa, Spectacles, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Zimbabwe, Zoos Tagged With: Brenda Jordan, Care for the Wild, Daphne Sheldrick, Merritt Clifton, Stefan Ormrod, vicuna, Zoo Check

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